New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

Scientists at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have refined a method to measure post-glacial rebound in ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

Deep-seated mantle structures known as LLSVPs have been found to be over a billion years old, affecting tectonic activity.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...

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Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...