Two continent-size blobs of hot — and possibly molten — rock can be found deep underground, about halfway to the center of the Earth, according to a new study. These curious structures — each of which ...

The sun's corona constantly breathes wispy strings of hot, charged particles into space — a phenomenon we call the solar wind. Every now and then, however, those breaths become full-blown burps.

Like a life-size lava lamp of doom, some underwater volcanoes spit giant lava blobs instead of erupting in explosions, a new study suggests. Until now, scientists divided volcanic eruptions into two ...

Scientists have found lava lamp-like blobs up to 500 times larger than the Earth in the solar wind, in data from a pair of spacecraft that launched in the 1970s. There’s a ton we don’t know about the ...

The Sun is as dynamic as it gets. It can also burp lava lamp-like blobs, according to the latest findings of NASA. The center of the solar system isn't a stationary ball of light. Millions of years ...

Sand and mud subducted off the coast of California around 75 million years ago returned to the Earth's crust by rising up through the mantle as enormous diapirs, like blobs in a lava lamp, new ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you could travel back in time 41,000 years to the last ice age, your compass would point south ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. If you could travel back in time 41,000 years to the last ice age, your compass would point south instead of north ...

UW Assistant Professor Jay Chapman teaches a winter-term field course in southern Arizona, during which students were able to investigate the Orocopia Schist in person. Chapman is the author of a new ...