Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.

Mysterious ancient earth rings located on the outskirts of Melbourne were made by Australia ’s Aboriginal Wurundjeri ...

Scientists uncover ancient crust hidden deep within Earth's mantle, revealing a 'sunken world' that challenges our ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.

New research published on January 8, 2025, in Nature, led by Dr. Chunfei Chen during his postdoctoral work with the Earth ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...