About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school, scientists are mapping strange, continent-sized structures that appear to shape everything from volcanic hotspots to the ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

A new study suggests that structures at the core-mantle boundary are remnants of an early basal magma ocean linked to Earth's ...

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...

The Earth’s inner core, a solid sphere predominantly composed of iron and nickel, occupies a central role in our planet’s evolution and geodynamo processes. Although hidden beneath thousands of ...

For decades, planetary seismology has run into a baffling enigma nearly 2,900 kilometers deep, right at the boundary between ...