According to the findings, these blobs may occasionally occur during continent-breakups, potentially affecting ice sheets, ...

The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to sink into the hot, soft rock below, like molasses dripping into honey.

Tech THE BLOB Never seen before mysterious hot blob found deep within Earth leaves scientists ‘puzzled’ as new imaging captures it Charlotte Edwards, Senior Technology and Science Reporter ...

The gaseous blob's orbit around Sagittarius A* is equivalent in size to the orbit of Mercury around the sun. But the blazing blob completes a full rotation around the black hole every 70 minutes ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A big, hot blob hiding beneath the bottom of the world could be evidence of a long-sought mantle plume under West Antarctica, researchers said Monday (Dec. 9) here at the annual ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured high-resolution images to reveal a hot, slightly off-center “blob” (inset to left) within the core of Supernova 1987A.

A hot blob of rock seems to be rising toward the surface beneath the North American tectonic plate, under a part of New England. (Credit: iStock) (DenisTangneyJr) ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A big, hot blob hiding beneath the bottom of the world could be evidence of a long-sought mantle plume under West Antarctica, researchers say. The possible hotspot — a plume of ...