Some researchers speculate that these anomalies could be remnants of a “lost world” beneath the Pacific Ocean, perhaps fragments of tectonic plates or ancient land masses. The discovery has ...

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

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones ... researchers identified abnormal zones beneath the western Pacific Ocean, far from any known subduction zone ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. The team hopes their discovery could serve as an ...

Specifically, they found areas in our planet's interior that appear to be the leftovers of submerged tectonic plates deep below ... be lurking deep below the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how ...

“By simulating how the Earth's tectonic plates are expected to evolve using a supercomputer, we were able to show that in less than 300 million years' time it is likely to be the Pacific Ocean ...

Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic plates shifted under the Pacific Ocean, sending seismic waves through the ocean floor that radiated onto land and ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying ... as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. Experts say the Southern Ocean was formed about ...