Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

Water trapped in minerals The underground ocean is neither in liquid form nor ice; the water is trapped in the molecular structure of minerals within the Earth's mantle, specifically in a mineral ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

The new ocean (like this new ocean which is being born ... That overturns what we know about how water moves back and forth between the surface and deep Earth, potentially even implicating underground ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted ...

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.