Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have revealed new details about Earth's ...

O grain boundaries under extreme pressure. Mantle convection and plate tectonics on Earth-like planets are influenced by how ...

Scientists from the University of Maryland discovered an ancient seafloor under the East Pacific Rise using seismic imaging ...

Geologists discovered a mysterious subduction zone deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, reshaping our understanding of Earth’s ...

Geologists have uncovered a mysterious subduction zone deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, reshaping our understanding of Earth's ...

Mountains create a lot of pressure on the lower lithosphere ... to be discovered': Lost chunk of seafloor hidden in Earth's mantle found off Easter Island "In any sort of physical system, if ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick area in the mantle transition zone, located 410 to 660 kilometres below Earth's ...

"This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth ...

Before Earth became the blue planet, it was engulfed by a very different kind of ocean: a vast, deep magma ocean reaching ...

But large-scale computer models of the mantle suggest that this layer of Earth probably does mix efficiently. If that's the case, it's possible that magmas all start out the same in the lower ...