Mantle

Parts of the Earth’s mantle might be loaded with diamonds, if a new model turns out to be correct. But no, you can’t…

Once again, scientists are looking inward to explore the next frontier. Researchers at Japan’s Agency for…

For the first time, geologists have compiled a global map of the wave-like motions called “convective currents”…

Humans have dreamt of of drilling to the center of the Earth for over a century, but the fact of the matter is, we…

In an unprecedented $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle, geologists are set to start drilling 3.7 miles…

If you're currently living on our pale blue dot, you should thank it for becoming inhabitable for us human folk.…

The Moon is an almost completely still world, its eternal peace and quiet disrupted only by the occasional meteor or…

Earth runs on massive amounts of heat, enough to melt iron in the core and create our magnetic field, enough to…

The inner core of our planet is roughly as big as the Moon, and we can only guess what's going on deep inside our…

Earth's continents are constantly changing, moving and rearranging themselves over millions of years - affecting…

Nearly a mile underground, there's an entire ecosystem carving out a rather alien existence in the deepest layer of…

1800 miles underground lies a mysterious zone between the Earth's mantle and core. Nobody is quite sure what's down…

Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. But we've never found any rocks remaining from the time when our planet formed.…

The Chikyu research vessel is already the world's deepest drill, probing nearly 23,000 feet beneath the ocean floor.…