About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

High-resolution images can now be used to reveal unexpected details of the Earth's internal structure. Researchers adapted technology developed for near-surface exploration of reservoirs of oil and ...

A new study suggests that structures at the core-mantle boundary are remnants of an early basal magma ocean linked to Earth's ...

From 1977 until his passing last October, Ed Kubina, a fourth grade teacher in Newburgh, NY, devoted his life to his family, his job, and collecting autographs and baseball cards. The focus of his ...

Figure 1: Speeds of seismic waves in the Earth, showing the major discontinuities at 410 and 660 km depth, and the D″ layer at the base of the mantle. The object of this Review is initially to ...

This computer model image shows the mantle (arrows) flowing around the Pacific plate of the Earth's crust (gray) as it sinks under Alaska. Longer arrows show faster-moving mantle. The Earth's mantle ...

Lately I’ve been thinking back to the last time I was condemned to Hell. A soon-to-be ex-friend who had recently got religion had decided that anyone not accepting his personal vision of God (which ...