Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

PROF. HANS STILLE of G6ttingen has issued, under the title of “Die Schrumpfung der Erde” (Berlin: Borntraeger; price Is. 8d.), a “Festrede” given to his university, in which he aptly ...

New calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that the planet's outer crust may be constantly churning, an unexpected phenomenon called convection that could help ...

The outer core is 1,200 km deep is the layer surrounding the inner core. ... Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet.

New calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that the planet’s outer crust may be constantly churning, an unexpected phenomenon called convection that could help ...

The crust is around 40 kilometres thick in the continents, and as little as 5 kilometres thick in the deep ocean. The mantle is a viscous layer of rock some 2900 kilometres deep. The outer core is ...

The planet's crust likely maxes out at about 40 miles (65 kilometers) thick — and, in many places, it may be much thinner, the study suggests. "That is surprisingly thin, given conditions on the ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Vadawale says these results bolster the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, which posits that the Moon’s mantle formed as heavier materials sank inward while lighter rocks floated to the surface ...

Trapped inside a layer of fractured rock 7 to 13 miles (11.5 to 20 kilometers) beneath the Red Planet's outer crust, reaching the water would require a drilling operation that has yet-to-be ...