A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

The early history of Earth conceals many mysteries, one being the existence of a deep ocean of magma beneath the planet's ...

A 400-mile funnel under the U.S. Midwest is dragging Earth's crust into the mantle—revealing ancient tectonic forces still ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

sinking through the global magma ocean into the Earth’s core. “I realised there might be a connection between early core formation, high siderophile element patterns, and the infamous negative niobium ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, scientists are uncovering alarming evidence of tectonic movement that ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

The team's calculations showed the protocrust -- Earth's earliest crust formed during ... or attracted to metal, sinking through the global magma ocean into the Earth's core.

A study published in Nature reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 ... or attracted to metal, sinking through the global magma ocean into Earth's core. "I realized there might be ...