The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

Water gushes through dark, craggy rocks on the shore. A massive water reservoir is hidden deep beneath the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand — and it may explain why the region experiences slow ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Researchers have confirmed that a rare geological process called lithospheric dripping is pulling pieces of the Earth’s lower crust deep into the mantle under the Konya Basin. This discovery, driven ...

It’s a tantalizing puzzle, teasing geophysicists by keeping its secrets locked away deep within the Earth’s continuously evolving crust. For decades, scientists have known that the Earth’s continental ...

Late last year, scientists in New Zealand announced that they had created the most thorough map of any continent on planet Earth. For decades, the geologists had dug up and analyzed countless rock ...