Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

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

Scientists have captured faint magnetic signatures resulting from the tidal movement of seawater across the planet — and they might have to wait until 2030 to get another shot at it.

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Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.

Combustion products may cause environmental and health problems. Earth and atmospheric science - Edexcel There is evidence that the Earth's early atmosphere contained less oxygen, but more carbon ...