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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have found potential remnants of Earth’s ancient crust deep within the mantle using new seismic mapping techniques ...

A new research reveals hidden 'sunken worlds' in Earth's mantle, offering clues about ancient crust and tectonic mysteries.

Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.

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

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

"The Earth's mantle is the engine that drives all these phenomena. Take, for example, mantle plumes, which are large bubbles of hot material that rise from the Earth's deep interior as in a lava ...