A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

Heat transport in the Earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought. Not only in the Earth's mantle, in the atmosphere and in the outer layers of the Sun ...

The current total heat flow at the Earth's surface — 46 ± 3 terawatts (10 12 J s −1) — involves contributions from heat entering the mantle from the core, as well as mantle cooling ...

Earth's hot, gooey center and its cold ... Previously, researchers would make models of heat-driven convection in the mantle that matched observations of the real mantle pretty well, but didn ...

We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

Researchers have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle conducts heat. This leads them to suspect that the Earth's heat may dissipate ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates is driven largely by negative buoyancy created as they cool. New research, however, shows plate dynamics are driven ...

This type of flow form of mantle convection, moves heat through Earth’s interior and reshapes how we think about the planet’s ...

Breakthrough discovery reveals gold and precious metals are slowly leaking from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

As they report Wednesday in Nature, new clues suggest that the oxidation change is a sign that Earth’s mantle rocks were melted in extreme heat and then persisted through billions of years.

It makes up 55% of Earth by volume and experiences pressure from 237,000 atm to 1.3 million atm towards the outer core. Heat and pressure in the lower mantle are much greater than in the upper mantle.

"That makes sense," Saldanha noted, "since heat and water mostly affect the upper layers of the Earth's crust." Deeper earthquakes, originating from within the Earth’s mantle, showed little ...