The left panel shows the solar system and Earth. The upper right panel presents the layered structure of the Earth, with arrows showing the coupling between mantle convection and tectonic plate motion ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Earth scientist Helen Janiszewski was an invited speaker, along with other national leaders in marine geophysical instrumentation, at a recent workshop hosted by the ...

Scientists probe Earth's interior using earthquake data. (Edward Garnero and Mingming Li/Arizona State University) It's a bit ...

The deep sea, covering approximately 65% of Earth's surface, has long been considered a biological desert. In this extreme environment—particularly in the hadal zone at depths greater than 6,000 ...

Traces of China's sci-tech exploration could be found on the snow-capped world's highest peaks, the underlying ecological texture of the vast land, the dark tranquility of the deep ocean, and the icy ...

The inner movements of our planet are hard to study. But what goes on thousands of kilometers beneath our feet influences earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes on the surface. Scientists have now ...