"These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica." ...

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The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, though at a pace so slow we rarely notice. But if we fast-forward 250 million ...

Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...

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 ...

A new continent is small potatoes in the context of Earth's geological history. All the continents were once a giant landmass known as Pangea, which then split off into the continents we know today.

Despite having been studied from every possible point of view and angle, the Earth will remain a mystery ... Their size is similar to that of an entire continent. In fact, one is just below ...

Jan. 22, 2025 — 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 ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision zones of new continents ... we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried ...

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic ... says geophysicist Cynthia Ebinger of Tulane University in New Orleans. Scientists had previously ...