If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer. Then, ...

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. It is between 36 and 87 miles (60 and 140 kilometers) thick, a 2023 study in the journal ...

But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which the drama of life’s evolution takes place. They are main characters too.

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

Changes in the surrounding river system may have caused the peak, and the rest of the Himalayas, to grow taller.

Science and technology YouTuber Cleo Abram has explained exactly what would happen if you tried to dig to the centre of the ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

A research published in ‘Earth and Planetary Science Letters’, focuses on the crustal dynamics of collision zones like the ...

A massive ocean has been discovered beneath the Earth’s crust which surprisingly contains more water than all the surface ...