Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Scientists have discovered that portions of the Earth's crust are peeling away and sinking into the mantle. The geological churning is happening beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The ...

British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting ... WMM update follows a period of highly unusual activity for the magnetic north pole.

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ... from the surrounding remains of subducted crust, as they are much hotter.

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle, a slowly-moving layer between Earth’s crust and core. Because seismic waves pass more slowly through these ...

“With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth’s mantle. But we don’t know exactly what they are.” The anomalies may be ancient subducted slabs—fragments of ...

Unlike the geographic North Pole, which marks a fixed location, the magnetic north pole’s position is determined by Earth’s magnetic field ... of highly unusual activity for the magnetic ...

This region provides evidence of a process of differentiation that occurs throughout Earth's crust, they argue.

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite ... increasing pressure from human activity." In the nearly 70 years ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly ... located in places where no known tectonic activity has ever occurred, such as below the ...

That’s just part of the uncertainty when you’re making predictions based on activity 3,000 miles away in Earth’s core. While the magnetic north pole is on the move, the south magnetic pole ...