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

"This is something we haven’t seen before," Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at the University of Göttingen who led the new ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a volcano.

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a ...

Ammonia has enormous potential as a fuel of the future, but most current production methods make it a dirty source of energy.

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Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

Recent studies have revealed that, until now, Hot Jupiters seem to be the only planet in orbit around their host star. This ...

"The occurrence of ringwoodite together with the hydrous phases indicate a wet environment at this boundary," a team of ...