Scientists have found potential remnants of Earth’s ancient crust deep within the mantle using new seismic mapping techniques. These anomalies, discovered in unexpected locations, suggest new ...

A HUGE underwater hidden volcano is set to erupt near the US mainland as scientists reveal it has shown signs it will blow imminently. The Axial Seamount is more than a mile wide and sits just off ...

More information: Guanning Pang et al, Long-lived partial melt beneath Cascade Range volcanoes, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01630-y Journal information: Nature Geoscience ...

The Sierra Nevada is in a seismically active region of the western US, allowing researchers to use the speed and reflection of waves rippling from constant tiny tremors to 'map' the depths beneath the ...

Two continent-sized regions deep in Earth’s mantle, known as LLSVPs, are hotter, older, and more rigid than their surroundings, contradicting the idea of a well-mixed mantle. Seismologists revealed ...

Nyasasaurus could be the earliest known dinosaur, or else a close relative of early dinosaurs. Credit: Mark Witton/The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London New research suggests that the ...

Two enormous continent-sized mountains 100 times taller than Everest are hidden thousands of kilometres beneath the Earth’s surface, according to new research that has left experts stunned.

A long truck fell off the Achimota overhead onto the road below after the driver reportedly braked suddenly to avoid a vehicle ahead. According to witnesses, the vehicle mounted the pavement ...

These subterranean islands are buried 1,200 miles (2,000km) beneath our feet, and reach heights of roughly 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing every mountain peak found on Earth’s surface and every other ...

Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected via tectonic plates beneath the Atlantic Ocean, contradicting traditional beliefs.

The two peaks lie deep beneath the Earth's surface. Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa and the Pacific ...

The pathways may connect Sforza Castle to a nearby basilica Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Beneath Sforza Castle in Milan, researchers have discovered a series of secret tunnels—passageways ...