Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

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

A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried.

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

Just over 4 billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle infiltrated a fracture in the young planet’s primordial crust. Over the following aeons, nearly all of the planet’s early crust ...

The Indian space agency is gearing up for the July launch of the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, a joint initiative of India and the US. The Indian rocket Ge ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have revealed that a portion of North America 's ancient continental crust, known as a craton, is slowly "dripping" into the Earth 's deeper layers.