Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean floor with no obvious reason to be there. It is not perched on a spreading ridge, nor does it si.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...