China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Scientists found a vast ocean 400 miles beneath Earth’s crust, stored in ringwoodite. It holds 3x more water than all surface ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...

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