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

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper and lower mantle. Specifically, they incorporated data on the damping of ...

Overall, Professors Sun and Tkalčić determine that mantle convection is the primary cause of Mars's unusual dichotomy, not giant impacts as the alternative hypothesis suggests. But their research ...

Mars' dramatic north-south divide has puzzled scientists for half a century. However, they may now have a conclusive answer.

MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might not even come close.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

The Martian dichotomy came to light in the 1970s following the Viking Probe's transmission of remarkably detailed Martian ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Scientists from Utrecht University have discovered two enormous structures deep in Earth's mantle, suggesting that these ...

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