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

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

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

Deep within Earth's mantle, scientists have uncovered mysterious structures in places they shouldn’t exist. These “sunken ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery deep beneath the Earth 's surface, uncovering what they're calling "sunken worlds ...

A new research reveals hidden 'sunken worlds' in Earth's mantle, offering clues about ancient crust and tectonic mysteries.

Potential areas of ancient crust have been discovered deep in the Earth's mantle. These "sunken worlds," as researchers ...

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

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

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

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists using a high-resolution model to study the Earth's mantle discovered unexplained structures underneath the Pacific ...