Soviet scientists drilled 12 kilometres into the Earth, but the world's deepest borehole barely scratched the planet's crust

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the ground on the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of the country, hoping ...
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World first: Scientists witnessed a piece of Earth's oceanic crust being born

Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, Scientists Witness the Seafloor Spread in Real Time, Giving Them a Rare Glimpse at a Mysterious Geologic Process

Across a matter of days in 2024, the seafloor in part of the Indian Ocean dropped by about 13 feet, and roughly 5.7 billion ...

Scientists witness birth of new oceanic crust for the first time, capturing rare underwater tectonic event

Scientists have witnessed the birth of new oceanic crust for the first time, capturing a rare seafloor spreading event that offers fresh insights into Earth's tectonic processes.
Popular Mechanics

Earth Tilted 31.5 Inches in Less Than 20 Years. Here’s What That Really Means for Us

Earth’s tilt recently made headlines when scientists revealed it had deviated 31.5 inches. That data came from a June study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that found human ...
The Conversation

How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as the Sun’s surface for billions of years?

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

Planet Earth, explained

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...