The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

While doctors use ultrasound to visualize organs without opening the body, geophysicists analyze seismic waves to map the ... located between the Earth's crust and the core. It extends about 2,900 ...

Many people envision Earth’s structure as a tidy, layered system: the thin crust on the surface, the thick mantle below ... scientists can map anomalies in the mantle, like faster wave speeds ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

Mark sits on a burglar, or Jez eats a dog on a barge? What's the very best episode of beloved British comedy Peep Show?

The Earth’s mantle, a layer thousands of kilometers thick located between the crust and the core ... allows scientists to map the interior structure of the Earth with unprecedented detail.

Mars-Crust-InSight Create a crustal thickness map of Mars from gravity and topography ... gravitational J2 of Mars from hydrostatic interfaces beneath the lithosphere. Earth-shape Compute hydrostatic ...

A sweeping synthesis of two decades worth of data from Canada's major earth sciences project has yielded an ... puzzles that emerged from the data over the past six years. Thick continental crust as ...

Nestled along a quiet stretch of road in Wilson, North Carolina, the Beefmastor Inn doesn’t look like much from the outside. In fact, if you blinked, you might miss it entirely. But don’t let its ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Nestled in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Heisey’s Diner is a carnivore’s paradise that’ll make your taste buds do a happy dance. This unassuming eatery serves up steaks so good, you might just forget your ...