In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In high school science class, textbooks often feature a recognizable ...

10TV wanted to help by finding some easy, kid-friendly craft projects you can do with your kids for Earth Day using recycled ... stack alternating layers of popsicle sticks on the outside edges ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

The crust hosts all known life, but it's merely Earth's outer casing, accounting for only 1% of the planet's total volume. The mantle, or middle layer ... to the Seismin project, and there's ...

These days, I’m a geophysicist and know a lot more about Earth’s structure. It has three main layers: The outer skin ... However, the Kola project was eventually abandoned because of drilling ...

The newly identified molten layer is located 100 miles (161 kilometers) below the Earth’s surface. This layer is a part of the asthenosphere, which sits beneath the tectonic plates. The ...

A new series of experiments has shown that the mysterious "E-prime layer," which surrounds Earth's outer core, is created by water that leaks deep into our planet's interior. When you purchase ...

Earth comprises four primary layers: an inner core at the planet's center, surrounded by the outer core, mantle, and crust. The formation of new enigmatic layer – E prime layer – at the ...