New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Farallon slab linked to crust loss under Midwest, says seismic study Crust thinning traced to deep Farallon slab 660km below surface New seismic method shows Earth’s crust pulled like a funnel ...

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

The data helps enhance scientists' understanding of how much water is actually present in the Moon’s mantle, which will ...

In the Indian Ocean, there is a place where the laws of gravity seem to falter—a gigantic depression in the Earth’s geoid ...

The Chang’e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an opportunity to study the water contents of the farside mantle.