The remnants of a protoplanet that slammed into Earth and created the moon may still be lurking deep in our planet's mantle. New research suggests that this impactor, which hit a just-formed Earth 4.5 ...

An artistic illustration shows Theia impacting the proto-Earth. Deep inside our planet are two giant “blobs,” the leftovers of an ancient world that collided with Earth. The blobs, which are in the ...

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Deep beneath Earth’s surface, two enigmatic giant blobs have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new research offers fresh insights into their origins and significance, proposing that these dense ...

Massive volcano eruptions - the kind that may have contributed to the downfall of the dinosaurs - are caused by blobs? Big LOwer-mantle Basal Structures (BLOBS) are mantel plumes that rise as ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: Two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath ...

An impact with a protoplanet called Theia 4.5 billion years ago seems to have left remnants deep inside Earth For decades, scientists have been baffled by two large, mysterious blobs in Earth’s mantle ...

Astronomers may have figured out where the mysterious blobs embedded in Mars' mantle originated. The mysterious lumps have been preserved beneath a single-plate crust for billions of years in the Red ...

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The mantle has three to five times more carbon than researchers would expect based on the proportion of elements in stars and other planets. The diamonds found in this layer of Earth might explain the ...