The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...

"The expanding-Earth theory had the merit of explaining with a fixist model the evidence of ancient continental connections," ...

New research reveals that Earth's core is leaking gold. Precious metals are moving from the core to the mantle and crust.

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A major 6.3-magnitude earthquake lasting several seconds shook the Colombian capital of Bogota early Sunday, according to AFP ...

The University of Göttingen has “literally struck gold” in Hawaiian volcanic rocks leaking from deep within the Earth’s ...

EARS is the largest active continental rift system on Earth, ripping through around 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) of Africa.

Motivation for the process seems to be mantle plumes—columns of rock superheated by contact with the core-mantle boundary and thrust into the Earth's lithosphere to create volcanic islands such ...

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

Adapted from USGS by BernardM, Wikimedia Commons, DP A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer ...

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the top part of the mantle, which is in a denser, but more fluid state. This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic ...