In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the ...

BEIJING -- The latest discovery from rock samples returned by China's Chang'e 6 lunar mission reveals that the moon's mantle ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

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

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the newly discovered structures.

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the ...

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting ...