Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – How does the inside of the Earth stay boiling hot for billions of years? Henry, age 11, Somerville, Massachusetts Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer ...

(WHTM) — Throughout our daily lives, we may not think that Earth is fascinating and we may take advantage of living on it. But what is inside the place that we call our home? What is deep inside that ...

At the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, the Mountain Pass mine looks like any other stretch of dust and rock.

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...