Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North ...

Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...

Scientists discover hidden "ghost plume" beneath Oman using earthquake data, revealing Earth's secret heat pathways.

The unusually warm section of the Earth’s mantle beneath Oman sparked curiosity about hidden plumes that shift known ideas of ...

Almost 3,000 kilometers underground, a seismic mystery has been solved as earthquake waves anomalous behavior is finally ...

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...

A mysterious zone in Earth's mantle is constantly in motion. Scientists have discovered that something is travelling deep ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades.

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The elements emerge when ocean islands form.

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...