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

Scientists have identified mysterious blobs of Earth's ancient crust, or 'sunken worlds,' deep within the mantle using ...

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

Scientists have discovered an ocean located beneath the Earth's crust that contains more water than all the surface oceans ...

The Earth has a hard, thin crust and molten mantle. However, experts now say the latter is less homogenous than we once thought and new tech is finally letting us figure out just what’s under there.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...

Peering deep under California’s Sierra Nevada, Schulte-Pelkum and Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric foundering in ...

"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.