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

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 ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Dr Chuan Huang, the study's lead author, explained: “Earth’s continents have formed supercontinents multiple times in its history, and the next one is likely to emerge as the Pacific Ocean closes.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...