Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s ...

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Life thrives far beneath the surface, in places once thought too harsh for survival. In the shadows of Earth’s crust, tiny organisms persist in darkness, pressure, and scarcity.

Tectonic plates — the massive solid slabs of Earth’s crust — pull apart at rift zones like Afar, stretching and thinning over millions of years until they rupture. Lead author Emma Watts, formerly of ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper ...