Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

Africa 'ripping apart' as huge continent to see region breaking away faster than expected A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift in Ethiopia.

The asthenosphere falls between the mantle and the crust. Due to the temperature and pressure conditions in the asthenosphere, some regions of the rock become fully melted, ...

The Earth is made up of a total of 7 layers which are- crust, lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle), asthenosphere (upper mantle directly below the lithosphere), lower mantle, ...

For some, it may be terrifying to think that we inhabit a sphere orbiting the Sun, whose core has temperatures of up to 6,000°C and all human activities are located on the Earth's crust, the ...

Below the lithosphere is the denser asthenosphere, stretching from the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB) to about 255 miles beneath Earth’s surface. Here is where temperature and pressure cause ...

The asthenosphere, on the other hand, is ductile and can flow over geological time scales. While it’s solid, it behaves plastically, allowing the lithosphere to move atop it due to its malleable ...

The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated ...

The asthenosphere is a dynamic, intricate part of our planet that serves as a driving force behind some of Earth’s most fascinating and transformative processes.