A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

The boundary between the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is the familiar landscape on which we live ...

The new layer is located around 100 miles beneath the surface and appears to extend below much of the Earth’s outer crust. Learning more about it could help decipher the mysteries of plate ...

Many parts of Earth are covered and protected by a layer of organisms called a biocrust ... dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the top of soil in arid landscapes," said Knowable ...