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

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

The West Antarctic Rift System is home to more than 130 volcanoes, and the region’s receding ice sheet could slowly wake them ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

For months space enthusiasts were fascinated by a small asteroid that was pulled by Earth's gravity and was fondly referred ...

Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.

Every day, about 48.5 tonnes of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Meteorites that fall into the ocean are never recovered. But ...

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a separation from the rest. These continent-sized areas are hotter than the rest ...

Now, a unique excavation of one of these rings has found that it was created anywhere 'between 590 and 1,400 years ago', and ...

Learn about hotspots in tundras and boreal forests that are releasing higher level of carbon dioxide, altering the carbon ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...