The vast mountains are believed to be at least a billion years old, but they could date back as far as four billion years to ...

Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, ...

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

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

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

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

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for the birthplace of dinosaurs, based on the locations of the currently ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.