The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

A recent groundbreaking scientific expedition has pierced deeper into the Earth’s mantle than ever before, offering ...

When the first results came in, we realised that we had literally struck gold!” declared Dr. Nils Messling, a geochemist at ...

The moon's nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside ...

Geology North America is 'dripping' down into Earth's mantle, scientists discover Geology Study reveals 'flawed argument' in debate over when plate tectonics began ...

Aboard the Joides Resolution research vessel, team members process samples of mantle rock recovered from a more than 4,100ft-deep hole drilled into the seabed of the North Atlantic (Lesley ...

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Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... suggest they are caused by waves that ripple through Earth’s mantle, the layer below the crust, when continents divide.

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

Had the team found evidence that the mantle plume under Easter Island has been active for 165 million years? To answer that question, Rojas-Agramonte needed evidence from the geology of the 'Ring ...

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