dark hotspots of life extend beyond what’s visible above the crust Margherita Bassi Earth's highest peak has gained as much as an extra 165 feet in elevation as the planet's crust adjusts due to ...

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. It is between 36 and 87 miles (60 and 140 kilometers) thick, a 2023 study in the journal ...

Could the Earth Actually Have Six Continents? Now, a new study from scientists at China University of Geosciences analyzed the North China Craton (NCC) to get a better understanding of how these ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the ...

Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle layer under growing mountain ranges. This odd process, called lithospheric dripping, has been proposed to occur under the Andes, in Central Asia ...

Using a robotic arm equipped with a chisel, the submarine was able to extract several sections of the Earth’s crust, revealing the unexpected life forms beneath. “The cavities were filled with ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where ... messages from Earth. Attached to the electronics vault is a triangular metal plate. On one side is a design labeled "water words ...

Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out searing hot water rife with harsh chemicals from beneath Earth’s crust. When they were first discovered in 1977, nobody expected ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where ... messages from Earth. Attached to the electronics vault is a triangular metal plate. On one side is a design labeled “water ...