After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

Growing up, most of us learned that Earth is home to seven continents ... North American and Eurasian tectonic plates – started to give way, creating a hot mantle plume that formed into a volcanic ...

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

Text and pictures by PRIYAN DE SILVA   The Institute for Development of Community Strength (INDECOS) which is based in Matara ...

One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...

Mickey Mantle’s presence is all around Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. Just outside the west gate sits a bronze statue of Mantle completing his famous left-handed swing. An image of him swinging is on ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

When plumes of magma well up through Earth's lithosphere ... effectively capped the plume for 30 million years, suppressing mantle melting, halting the creation of new volcanic structures ...