Scientists from the Universities of Derby in the UK and Uppsala in Sweden have confirmed something extraordinary—a new continent on Earth. For centuries, there were rumors about a landmass called ...

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

Legends of lost continents have always been fascinating and mysterious. They are full of stories about once majestic ...

An astonishing 71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, with oceans holding about 96.5 percent of the planet's supply. The world's major seas number five, and include the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

This scattered continent is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north, east and south; the Southern Ocean to the south and the Indian Ocean to the west. Like all other continents, Oceania has ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...