A representation of the underground imaging used in the study. (Edward Garnero and Mingming Li/Arizona State University) The ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

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What is beneath the continent of Africa? There are two big structures down there that do not seem to be from our planet, Earth. Africa has a lot of things about it, but these two enormous structures ...

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Between 50 and 100 kilometers (30–60 miles) above the Earth's surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere, called the mesosphere. It's too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too ...

Stand structure influences the distribution of light and water and thus affects the functioning of forest ecosystems. However, information on stand structure capturing both horizontal and vertical ...

The illustration shows a cutaway revealing the interior of early Earth with a hot, melted layer above the boundary between the core and mantle. Scientists think some material from the core leaked into ...