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

The vast mountains are believed to be at least a billion years old, but they could date back as far as four billion years to ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

The LLSVPs are found in what scientists refer to as "slab graveyards," where tectonic plates sink through a process called ...

These mountains, known as "Large Low Seismic Velocity Provinces" or LLSVPs, sit on the boundary between Earth's core and ...

Researchers from Utrecht University have found in a study that there are two colossal peaks that reach heights of around 620 ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa ...

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

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

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...