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 ...

Earth's many layers are hidden ... through Earth remains science fiction, scientists have some ideas about what might occur based on experience from other drilling projects. Earth's diameter ...

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 ... according to Live Science's sister ...

This photo of Earth’s limb was taken Feb. 12, 2020, from the International Space Station. The central dark band is smoke from summer wildfires in Australia. The smoke layer has reached the ...

A few decades ago, seismologists imaging the deep planet identified a thin layer ... this project as a visiting PhD student and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Space ...