A sideways flow of hot mantle rock, not a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, may be feeding one of the planet’s most ...

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

A new geodynamic model is reshaping how scientists understand supervolcanoes, revealing that their magma systems may be far ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

Heat flow in the Sea of Japan / Masashi Yasui [and others] -- Temperature profiles for the continental and oceanic crust / E.A. Lubimova -- Terrestrial heat flow in India / R.K. Verma and Hari Narain ...

Researchers have found that Mercury's low-iron, high-sulfur chemistry allows its magma to stay liquid at lower temperatures ...

Scientists had previously determined that the interior of Mars may be heterogenous. New research questions the previous ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...