Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000), in what have been described as 'islands'. They can be found ...

Did you know that Earth has vast hidden oceans beneath its surface? These underground water reserves, trapped deep within the planet, have a significant impact on our climate, geology, and even life ...

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

Scientists uncover ancient crust hidden deep within Earth's mantle, revealing a 'sunken world' that challenges our ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery deep beneath the Earth 's surface, uncovering what they're calling "sunken worlds ...

Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, geologists have found evidence of Earth's rigid outer layer sinking into ...

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O ne billion years ago, Earth was boring as hell. Animals were yet to evolve and most life was small, simple, and slimy. Even ...