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

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet ...

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

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

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

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

Massive hidden structures in Earth's mantle, called LLSVPs, shape tectonic activity, drive volcanoes, and reveal ancient ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa ...

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

These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...

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

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