Where the Earth’s core meets the mantle, there are two giant regions that have baffled geologists for fifty years. A new piece of the puzzle has now emerged with the discovery that they have different ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Studying the Evolutionary History of Continent-Sized Regions in the Deep Mantle Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

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

There's a lot of debate about what LLVPs are. Some studies have suggested that they're material from the ancient Earth — either a layer of primordial unmixed rock from the planet's formation or ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion ... at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, told Live Science. "The only thing that we know of these is that ...

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.

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

Iron can form compounds with helium at pressures as low as 5GPa – about 50,000 atmospheres – researchers in Japan report.

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...