Two hidden mountains, more than 100 times larger than Mount Everest have been discovered deep underground. The two ‘islands ...

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

Scientists have been contemplating the mysterious structures deep within the Earth for many years. Research indicates that ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...