The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Earth, and it was covered by a deep ocean of magma. Over ...

The extremely hot interior of the Earth is slowly cooling down, but exactly how fast remains unknown. By studying how well a common deep-Earth mineral conducts heat, researchers from Carnegie and ETH ...

Geophysicists have developed a method that allows them to investigate the composition of the Earth with better results. LMU geophysicist Max Moorkamp has developed a method that allows us to ...

Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have made an interesting discovery. They found that slow-motion collisions of massive tectonic plates inside the Earth are dragging more carbon ...

Aug. 17 (UPI) --French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible. Since then, scientists have ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the ...

New research ultimately poses more questions than it answers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have eliminated one ...