In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

A team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth's Mantle.

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The intense heat and pressure at the Earth's core, deep beneath the ...

Quakes on Mars have unveiled its interior to an unprecedented degree, revealing surprising details about the Red Planet's crust, mantle and core. Measurements taken by NASA's InSight (Interior ...

NASA’s Mars InSight has provided … well, insight, into the inner workings of the Red Planet. By monitoring “marsquakes” over the past two years the instrument has allowed scientists to measure the ...

A global seismic study has revealed that ancient tectonic slabs buried 1,800 miles below Earth's surface are still deforming the lowermost mantle near the core-mantle boundary. Using over 16 million ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

Our planet may have had a recent change of heart. Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science ...

Scientists discover that a potential 'diamond factory' may have existed at Earth's core-mantle boundary for billions of years. Steel rusts by water and air on the Earth's surface. But what about deep ...