While InSight’s seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku ...

Extreme chemical reactions could explain why Earth's middle layer has so much carbon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

The center of Earth lies around 4,000 miles under our feet — but what lies beneath the outer crust and the inner core? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The lumps frozen in Mars' mantle may have been there for billions of years. Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated. The mysterious lumps have ...

History was made this month. No, not another indictment, or a candidate throwing a hat into the presidential race. For the first time, a drill penetrated into the Earth’s mantle and retrieved samples ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms ...

Oceanic island hotspots — Hawaii and Iceland — are the final destinations of elemental isotopes from the beginnings of Earth, in concentrations found nowhere else on Earth’s crust. Until now, it was ...