A chunk of the Earth's crust is missing and scientists have discovered where it is ...
The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make that continental crust.” Johnson and his colleagues are now arguing that the ...
When a single worm was discovered in the depths of our planet's crust, it began an extraordinarily lucky series of events ...
A rare worm species, Halicephalobus mephisto, was discovered deep underground in South Africa. This microscopic creature thrives in extreme heat and pressure, conditions previously thought ...
Despite decades of effort, humans have only drilled 0.2% into Earth’s crust. Heat, pressure, and flowing rock make reaching ...
Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the magmatic underworld in April 2024. (Royer et al., Nature, 2026) Most of our planet ...
A new deep-sea probe witnessed the silent, violent magma flows that heal our planet’s scars.
Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...
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