Scientists say this “giant hot blob” is part of a deep mantle structure that has already helped tear continents apart once, ...

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...

It’s almost as if the Earth knows that it is almost Halloween. A scary oceanic and atmospheric phenomenon, christened “The Blob” by Washington climatologist Nick Bond some five years ago, has returned ...

Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900 kilometers below the surface, almost halfway ...