Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

The only exception has been where the mantle is exposed by faulting, where a crack forms in the Earth's crust. I was part of an international team which retrieved a record-breaking 1,268m-long ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

Giant blobs that lurk near Earth's core are much older than scientists thought, new seismic data reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.