Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

suggesting instead that it might be part of a hidden continental landmass. If true, this would dramatically change our understanding of continental drift and the dynamic nature of Earth's tectonic ...

Zealandia, which some researchers believe could be considered Earth's eighth continent, is older than previously thought. Recent studies suggest that Zealandia is over a billion years old. Scientists ...

Scientists discover evidence of a submerged continent beneath Iceland, challenging Earth’s continental map. This tectonic ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Scientists discovered a hidden process where Earth's crust peels away and sinks, reshaping continents over millions of years, revealing Earth's slow evolution.

One is known to exist under the continent of Africa, while the other can be found Pacific Ocean. Both are hidden around 1,200 miles below the Earth's surface. The team from Utrecht University in ...

Iceland's geological role reveals a hidden subcontinent ... suggests that Earth has only six continents and not seven as conventionally accepted. The study challenges a time-honored assumption ...

And hidden structures ... in locations under continents’ interiors and beneath oceans, where sunken plates had never been found before. “Apparently, such zones in the Earth’s mantle are ...