Japanese researchers say they are closing in on the mystery of Earth’s “missing” geomagnetic polarity reversals, identifying where they believe scientists should look for evidence of their unusual ...
Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that ...
From mantle and core to sealed Antarctic lakes, these unreachable zones show how much of Earth still stays far beyond human ...
When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...
Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...
The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...
The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...
The reality is more nuanced than the viral claim, yet the answer leans more toward yes than no.
For years, scientists studying the Greenland ice sheet have been puzzled by unusual swirling patterns hidden deep beneath the surface. Now, researchers believe they have finally solved the mystery. A ...
For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.
The ice sheet may be undergoing thermal convection, resembling a "boiling pot of pasta," according to researchers.
The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.