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

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

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

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our ... according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The moon orbits the Earth at an average distance ...

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 ...