Recent findings suggest that Earth’s mantle might harbor hidden plumes venting heat from the planet’s core, a discovery that ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

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We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

Volcanic regions like Etna are known to be rich in various minerals and elements. Mount Erebus, one of the world’s most ...

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found.

Breakthrough discovery reveals gold and precious metals are slowly leaking from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

To explain how this occurred, planetary scientists are pointing the finger at mantle plumes set off ... when Theia smashed into Earth 4.51 billion years ago, the heat produced would have lasted ...

It had already been argued, in the 1970s, that these plumes might originate from the ... upward from the core and discovered that broad mantle upwellings, or “pillars of heat”, connect the very deep ...

Then, in 2010, geologists proposed that kimberlite eruptions could be explained by thermal plumes ... that broad mantle upwellings, or “pillars of heat”, connect the very deep Earth to the ...

Finally, the volcanic material in the area has much higher levels of iron than other areas of Mars, a feature found in volcanism driven by mantle plumes on Earth ... the heat flow from Mars ...