An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

For many years, scientists have believed that the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its surface – moves like a giant ...

Volcanoes spewed clouds of noxious gases and Earth was enveloped in a suffocating atmosphere of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and steam. With no oxygen to breathe and no ozone layer to block the lethal ...

Volcanoes can look like small mountains ... we need to look at the structure of the Earth. The Earth is made up of different layers. At the centre is the core, around that is the mantle, and ...

Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest and largest volcano in our solar system, stands at 16 miles high and 374 miles wide. Found ...

Hubble has homed in on a nearby star called R Aquarii, which is throwing out material for billions of miles around it.

"Traditionally we've been taught the Earth has four main layers: the crust ... Earth's crust has been inferred mostly from what volcanoes have divulged and what seismic waves have whispered.

Cordón Caulle is a great place to study the interconnectedness of geohazards, Ruprecht said, because all these hazards come ...

Traditionally, textbooks have described the mantle as a viscous, well-mixed layer that shifts along with tectonic plates, ...

Europa Clipper and JUICE are set up to give scientists game-changing information about the potential habitability of ...