Mount Everest’s crown as the world’s tallest peak may be slipping. Scientists are buzzing over a jaw-dropping ...

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

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

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 ...

At around 620 miles high, these subsurface “islands of rock” stand more than 100 times higher than Mount Everest’s summit of around 5.5 miles, ...

Good Acoustics The mystery of two continent-sized structures buried deep in the Earth's mantle has produced a new twist after scientists got a closer look at their composition, suggesting they might ...

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

Deep within Earth's mantle, scientists have uncovered mysterious structures in places they shouldn’t exist. These “sunken ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...