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

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

The Earth’s mantle, a massive layer of rock beneath the crust, is the “engine” of plate tectonics. Stretching nearly 2,900 kilometers deep, it shapes much of the planet’s geology and ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

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

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana. Today, it's home to a tiny and extremely isolated farming community.