Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped the conditions for life at the surface. I cannot verify specific scientific ...

Beneath the familiar crust we walk on lies a vast, unseen world teeming with microscopic life. For decades, scientists assumed the deep Earth was too hot, dark, and nutrient-poor to sustain anything ...

South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers discovered that bridgmanite deep in the mantle can store far more water at high ...