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

A U.S. military joint task force did some training recently off the Florida coast, preparing to help rescue astronauts from ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

Good Acoustics The mystery of two continent-sized structures buried deep in the Earth's mantle has produced a new twist after scientists got a closer look at their composition, suggesting they might ...

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features ...

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 ...

Seismic imaging has revealed two colossal regions deep within Earth’s mantle that could reshape our understanding of the ...

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

David Lynch, the American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor, has died at 78. His family announced the death in a ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will spend around 45 days in transit to the Moon before landing on the lunar ...