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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

House and Senate Democrats are drawing a red line after agents from President Donald Trump’s FBI arrested a sitting ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

What they saw were large, drip-like structures extending from the base of the craton into the mantle transition zone, an area roughly 400 to 700 kilometres below Earth's surface.

As the Trump administration attempts to dismantle the Department of Education, there is fear that California’s special education programs may be impacted. Although President Trump has made no ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.