Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Scientists have discovered more information about two huge 'islands' located deep in the mantle, more than 1,000 miles ...

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

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features ...

Scientists uncover colossal mountains 100x taller than Everest hidden 1,200 miles beneath Earth's surface, reshaping our ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...