Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped the conditions for life at the surface. I cannot verify specific scientific ...

A mysterious geological structure that resembles a human hand with outstretched fingers has been revealed beneath East ...

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 ...

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe—based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research—is the ...