Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Scientists believe they may affect the planet's magnetic field because of the way they influence heat flow from Earth's core. There's a lot of debate about what LLVPs are.

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, together with Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, departed the International Space Station at ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

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A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...