The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that the moon's mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, ...

Earth’s rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet’s ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Chinese scientists analyzing samples from the Moon’s farside have uncovered that its mantle holds significantly less water ...

The Oklahoma City Triple-A team was renamed the Comets before this season to honor Mickey Mantle -- nicknamed the “Commerce ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.