The origins in question, researchers believe, could be the BLOBS found deep within the Earth. These mysterious structures ...

By simulating the movement of Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered the magmatic engine behind devastating eruptions.

Could the destiny of continents and even the demise of the dinosaurs have been determined by monstrous, slow-moving BLOBS hiding thousands of kilometers under our feet? For decades, geoscientists have ...

New research has uncovered a fascinating link between volcanic eruptions and mysterious structures deep within Earth’s interior, challenging long-standing assumptions about the planet’s lower mantle.

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic ...