Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Despite having been studied from every possible point of view and angle, the Earth will remain a mystery to most people. Studies of its structure are incomplete, especially after t ...

The film explores the dynamic nature of Earth's crust, detailing how it has evolved over billions of years. Initially formed ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Deep inside the mantle (the layer between Earth's iron core and its silica-dominated crust), there are vast ... This makes it important to understand the structure of the LLVPs and how they ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.