This submerged landmass, about the size of England, lies underneath the Davis Strait and is about 60 million years old ... how we think of continents. The implications of these findings go beyond ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the blobs buried deep in Earth's mantle may be a billion years old. | Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Continent-size islands deep inside ...

If Iceland is part of a submerged continent, Earth’s continental map may need a dramatic update—potentially changing science textbooks forever. 'Bryan Johnson's organs': A 64-year-old ear ...

I’M OFTEN ASKED WHY AFRICA MATTERS. It’s an understandable question in a world of real responsibilities, real demands, and ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

“Earth becomes a musical instrument.” Decades ago, measurements of such seismic waves identified two strange continent-sized ... these objects are extremely old, with origins going back ...

Zealandia, which some researchers believe could be considered Earth's eighth continent, is older than previously thought. Recent studies suggest that Zealandia is over a billion years old. Scientists ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...