The seafloor is far thinner than the bulky landmass, and temperature from within Earth is “quenched” by the enormous volume ...

Watch the fascinating processes through which energy travels across the Earth, atmosphere, and even into space. Energy ...

A new discovery reveals that Earth's deep D” layer flows like syrup despite being solid, reshaping our understanding of ...

Like most of us, Earth has a lot going on under the surface — even in what may have once seemed to be its most unassuming layer. The mantle, a zone between our planet’s thin crust and the ...

The life of planet Earth is a fascinating world studied by geologists around the world. In recent months, some discoveries have been reported that may be a leap in the knowledge of ...

According to a new study, heat radiated from the Earth’s core to the mantle is responsible for at least 50 percent of plate tectonics. This information is expected to make earthquake prediction more ...

The final frontier isn’t space: It’s the Earth itself. We’ve sent people to the moon, robots to Mars and the New Horizons space probe 3.26 billion miles from Earth to snap photos of Pluto, while just ...

These mountains on the Earth’s core five times taller than Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on the surface, “may play an important role in how heat escapes from the core,” researchers said.

The Greenland ice sheet is melting from below, caused by a high heat flow from the mantle into the lithosphere. This influence is very variable spatially and has its origin in an exceptionally ...

What Is the Lithosphere? Of this 255-mile stretch, the first 62 miles are part of what’s called the lithosphere, which includes the crust and the uppermost portion of the mantle. What Are Tectonic ...