A mysterious zone in Earth's mantle is constantly in motion. Scientists have discovered that something is travelling deep ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...

Scientists on the US West Coast say they discovered three previously unknown species of deep-sea spider that could have a ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Plants and trees extend their roots into the earth in order to draw nutrients and water from the soil—however, these roots ...

Scientists found giant buried mud waves in the Atlantic, revealing the ocean began forming earlier than thought and ...