Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...
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 blobs are both hotter and ...
As far back as 470 BCE, ancient Greeks speculated the Earth itself moves. In 1851, French physicist Leon Foucault ...
Japanese researchers investigated ancient texts from the 4th to 7th centuries CE to identify five ... [+] total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes, Earth is suddenly spinning faster.
Does the Biblical Noah appear in Greek mythology, and what is the connection of Noah's son, Japheth, and the son of Greek god Uranus, Iapetus?