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 ...

"As the lithosphere thickened and dripped below the region, it formed a basin at the surface that later sprang up when the ...

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 ...

Satellite data revealed the Konya Basin in Türkiye is sinking due to crust dripping, where parts of Earth's crust fall into ...

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

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

Experiments show how concentrations of rare earth elements, critical to the green energy transition, might be hiding in plain ...

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