If you were to slice through it, you would see the Earth is divided into distinct layers. On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer. Then, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth's most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...

Earth's core holds far more gold than anyone can reach. More than 99.999 per cent of the planet's stores of gold and other precious metals lie buried under 3,000 kilometres of solid rock, locked away ...

Tiny changes in Earth’s rotation may reveal a tug-of-war between its deformable inner core, liquid outer core and deep mantle ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite that forms ...

To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole. Reading time 3 minutes Rock at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean ...

There’s a special kitchen at the bottom of the sea. Scientists are now closer to reconstructing how it whipped up early life, thanks to a massive 1.2-kilometer core that a ship drilled out from a ...