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

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The concept of a hidden land beneath Iceland that could ... As scientists reconsider the structure of Earth’s continents, they will need to re-examine how geological processes such as subduction ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected via ...

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 ...

The study confirms that microcontinent formation isn’t ancient history—it’s an active, ongoing process shaping Earth’s future. If Iceland is part of a submerged continent, Earth’s ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

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 ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, Earth's molten crust solidified unseen, leaving geologists to piece together how lighter continents separated from the dense mantle below—a slow, hidden process now ...

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 ...