A striking image captured by Google Earth shows Earth from a perspective that reveals the planet’s vast blue surface in ...

Earth’s surface tells a complex story, shaped not only by visible forces like tectonics and erosion but also by hidden mantle ...

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

The mantle is made up of viscous rock that can "flow" to replace material that has been moved by the weight of rocks and water on Earth's surface. For example, mantle rocks are currently flowing ...

Along the way, of course, sedimentary rocks can be re-eroded or metamorphic rocks re-uplifted ... The oceans cover some 70 percent of Earth's surface, according to NOAA, yet humans have only ...

(Courtesy photo/Chip Clark) (CN) — Over the past 485 million years, the global mean surface temperature of the Earth has experienced drastic changes, more than previously thought, according to a new ...

While previous simulations of ancient Earth's climate have put the planet's average surface temperature between 14 and 26 degrees Celsius (57.2 and 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the new model widens ...

She and her col­leagues drill boreholes up to a quarter of a mile into the uplifted man­tle ... nearly a third of the planet’s surface was land. Several Earth scientists, including Robert ...

Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data alongside solar activity records and surface temperatures on Earth and observed that when they included Earth surface ...