Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

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

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet.

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a ... strong enough to reverberate through the whole planet, including the LLSVPs and the surrounding mantle.

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

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

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Oceania is a region of islands which includes Australia but is not classed as a continent. Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...