Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

Hidden inside Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is Son Doong, the largest cave on Earth. It’s so vast that a Boeing 747 could fit through its chambers. Inside, jungles grow beneath openings in ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...

Scientists have discovered a heartbeat-like pulse emanating from inside the Earth beneath the continent of Africa, which they believe will one day rip the continent into pieces. In a new study ...

Thomas Gernon receives funding from the WoodNext Foundation, a component fund administered by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg ...