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

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

Several Gulf states experienced a major snowstorm this week. Changes in global climate patterns can be connected to weird ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

Alien (1979) thrived as a sci-fi/horror film by taking the mystery of space exploration and the vast unknowns of the universe ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Solar storms pose a rising threat to power grids, satellites, and communications. Experts call for urgent preventive measures ...

"It’s about figuring out how we can keep humanity and soul in the future worlds we’re building, where nature and technology ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

“Volcanic activity has been shown to affect Earth’s climate in a myriad of ways,” the authors write. “One such example is ...

Now, a unique excavation of one of these rings has found that it was created anywhere 'between 590 and 1,400 years ago', and ...