Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

Two massive structures are located inside Earth - under the Pacific Ocean and beneath Africa and parts of the Atlantic. No ...

Indian scientists have uncovered the possible cause behind the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), the lowest geoid anomaly on ...

The new study reveals that the African plate and the Pacific plate have different chemical compositions and ages, parting ways with the old study, which proposed they are both similar in composition.

The surprise discovery that one of the lightest elements in the Universe can bind to iron under high pressure to form iron ...