A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

The current total heat flow at the Earth's surface — 46 ± 3 terawatts (10 12 J s −1) — involves contributions from heat entering the mantle from the core, as well as mantle cooling ...

As they report Wednesday in Nature, new clues suggest that the oxidation change is a sign that Earth’s mantle rocks were melted in extreme heat and then persisted through billions of years.

This type of flow form of mantle convection, moves heat through Earth’s interior and reshapes how we think about the planet’s ...

Breakthrough discovery reveals gold and precious metals are slowly leaking from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

It makes up 55% of Earth by volume and experiences pressure from 237,000 atm to 1.3 million atm towards the outer core. Heat and pressure in the lower mantle are much greater than in the upper mantle.

who for decades have dreamed of punching through miles of Earth’s crust to sample the mysterious realm that makes up most of the planet. The heat-driven churn of the mantle is what fuels plate ...

The iconic "lost city" found at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean is unlike anything else researchers have managed to find on ...

"On Earth, mantle rock is normally extremely difficult ... At the site, shifting plate tectonics in the ocean crust fueled by heat from the mantle cause earthquakes and lead to the formation ...

"That makes sense," Saldanha noted, "since heat and water mostly affect the upper layers of the Earth's crust." Deeper earthquakes, originating from within the Earth’s mantle, showed little ...

During this process the molten mantle solidifies, trapping the metal. That’s when convection takes over, as heat from the Earth’s core causes a very slow creeping motion of materials in the ...