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

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

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

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

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

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

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that oxygen-17 isotopes on the moon closely ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.