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A mysterious 'ghost plume' has been spotted beneath eastern Oman. Emanating from the Earth's core, this hot pillar of soft ...
By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...
Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...
Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.
ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.
The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades.
Recent findings suggest that Earth’s mantle might harbor hidden plumes venting heat from the planet’s core, a discovery that ...
Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...
New research reveals that Earth's core is leaking gold. Precious metals are moving from the core to the mantle and crust.
Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed — a really big planet orbiting a really small star.
Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...
TOI-6894 is one such star. Announced Wednesday in a paper for Nature Astronomy, the red dwarf is just 20% the mass of our Sun ...