Over the course of the planet's 4.5 billion-year history, several supercontinents have formed and broken up, a result of churning and circulation in the Earth's mantle, which makes up 84% of the ...

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is moving toward Russia. Rating: True (About this rating?) In mid-November 2024, several news ...

(Marcus Heatherly / Daily Trojan) A recent study on earthquakes led by Sylvain Barbot, an associate professor of earth ...

Researchers have identified 303 previously uncharted geoglyphs made by the Nazca civilization in Peru with the help of ...

They are formed by lava welling up to the surface, where it cools and hardens, while denser material left in the mantle below ...

That’s relevant for digging through the Earth, because when a hole is dug or drilled, the walls along the sides of the hole ...

The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, ...

Borehole walls are under tremendous pressure and prone to failing. The slow movement of Earth’s mantle would eventually cause a borehole to bend and collapse. Magma, gases and liquid metal deep ...

When I dug holes as a kid, I was scratching away at the very top of Earth’s crust. The mantle, which lies beneath the crust, is much thicker, like the flesh of the apple. It’s made of strong ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, the 450-meter-wide asteroid will pass remarkably close to Earth on ...