Why should one half of our world be losing its internal heat like a runny kettle, and the other retain it like a snug thermos ...

Earth has a red hot liquid interior that warms the entire planet from inside. It spins, too, generating both gravity and ...

The D'' layer of the mantle flows in a solid state due to post-perovskite alignment, which accelerates seismic waves by 7%.

Starting at the surface, you would have to dig nearly 2,000 miles before reaching the Earth’s core. No one could survive that ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

The life of planet Earth is a fascinating world studied by geologists around the world. In recent months, some discoveries ...

Deep heat beneath the Appalachian Mountains may be linked to an ancient rift with Greenland, helping explain why the range is ...

In the 1990s, seismologists discovered two hot zones within Earth’s mantle: one under most of Africa, Spain, and part of the Atlantic; the other under the Pacific Ocean.

Deeper earthquakes, originating from within the Earth’s mantle, showed little connection to solar heat. But shallow earthquakes—which can be extremely destructive—appeared influenced by ...