Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging the idea that these ancient crustal structures are immovable. Seismic imaging ...

A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. The water cycle works by using the energy of the Sun to exchange water from oceans and lakes to the ...