Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so ...

Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To understand the geologic processes roiling beneath the Earth’s crust, it helps to have samples of what exactly is going on down ...

Learn how seismic waves helped identify rare mantle earthquakes deep below Earth’s crust, offering new insight into the ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied. However, ...

A new study suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock ringing the Earth, at the very bottom of the upper mantle. A new study from a University of Chicago scientist suggests there may be ...