Although the mantle is a 2,900km layer of semi-solid rock, it lies at least six kilometers beneath the crust. This makes it nearly impossible to sample. But in 2023, ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

This extreme depth is far greater than any previous attempts to drill into oceanic mantle rocks. According to the study, co-authored by C. Johan Lissenberg from Cardiff University, the scientists ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists recovered a long section of rocks that originated in the Earth’s mantle. This layer just below the crust is the largest part of the planet’s ...

Having access to these mantle rocks will allow us to make the connection between the volcanoes and the ultimate source of their magmas.” [Related: See 24,000 years of climate history at a glance .] ...

Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and obtained a large sample ...

Geologists have drilled deeper than ever into material from the Earth’s mantle – more than three quarters of a mile (1.2 km). The sample gives a glimpse into the geology and even life in a ...

Record-breaking set of rocks from inside the Earth could explain where we came from The rocks will help to explain what role the mantle played in the origins of life on Earth.

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The elements emerge when ocean islands form.

The mantle, making up more than 80 per cent of the planet’s volume, is a layer of silicate rock sandwiched between the earth’s outer crust and a ferociously hot core.