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

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

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

The study suggests that the deep mantle, where magma arises, is more uniform than scientists thought. Instead of being a stew-like mix of rock compositions, the mantle might be more like a blended ...

Scientists have identified mysterious blobs of Earth's ancient crust, or 'sunken worlds,' deep within the mantle using ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet. However, ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered potential remnants of Earth's ancient crust, often referred to as ‘sunken worlds,’ hidden deep ...

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

For this new study, the team called on the power of the Piz Daint supercomputer to process data from every kind of earthquake wave our planet utters, enabling them to piece together a far more ...

Although such a 'plum-pudding' mantle — one consisting of blobs of one composition dispersed in a matrix of another — has been invoked previously, the data assembled over the past few years ...