A first-of-its-kind satellite recently launched into orbit to monitor Earth’s changing surfaces, detecting movement of the ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Picture the Earth’s crust and you most probably think of dense, dry rock. You don’t imagine a goey, honey-like substance trickling down into the planet’s deep underbelly.

Despite decades of effort, humans have only drilled 0.2% into Earth’s crust. Heat, pressure, and flowing rock make reaching ...

A fantastic alien adventure can be found on our very own planet by studying the microbial life in Earth's crust, according to ...

Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally ...

Oxygen is the main component of Earth’s crust and mantle. But molecular oxygen only began to accumulate in the atmosphere around 2.5 billion years ago, after organisms that produce oxygen ...

A study now suggests they are at least 4.16 billion years old — 160 million years older than any others recorded, and the only piece of Earth’s crust known to have survived from the planet’s ...

In areas like eastern Finnmark, Lofoten, and Vesterålen, the bedrock is as old as 3 billion years. Parts of eastern Norway, Trøndelag, western Norway, Telemark, and Agder also rest on bedrock between ...