The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

We have access to rock samples from the crust and upper mantle, but we will never be able to sample the deep mantle or solid core. Even if we had the technology, it would be astronomically ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust ... of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust. For example, iron is mined from the Earth's crust ...

Although this inner core is ... the upper mantle and the lower mantle. The boundary between the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is the outermost ...