Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The beginnings of a strange layer of molten rock deep inside the Earth may have finally been figured out by geoscientists ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The slice you see cut out of the Earth reveals its core, depicted here in bright yellow. fhm/E+ via Getty Images Our Earth is ...

The lithosphere — the outermost layer of the Earth — has long been assumed to be composed largely of solid rock. But a recent ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

An odd rock layer that spans 20 kilometres under the Bermuda has been discovered, which has left scientists baffled. The rock's 'level of thickness' has never been witnessed in any other layer in the ...