The extremely hot interior of the Earth is slowly cooling down, but exactly how fast remains unknown. By studying how well a common deep-Earth mineral conducts heat, researchers from Carnegie and ETH ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine is ...

Earth's deep interior transport system explains volcanic island lava complexities, report scientists. Studies of rocks found on certain volcanic islands, known as ocean island basalts, have revealed ...

Sujoy Mukhopadhyayis professor of geochemistry and cosmochemistry at the University of California, Davis. Conversing with Times Evoke, he explains how Earth’s crust — and its deep interior — mould ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The processes that churn away inside the Earth's interior are notoriously difficult to study, ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball, about 1,500 ...