According to the findings, these blobs may occasionally occur during continent-breakups, potentially affecting ice sheets, ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

A vast pocket of unusually warm rock is making its way under the Appalachians toward New York, but it's not in a big ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to sink into the hot, soft rock below, like molasses dripping into honey.

A huge and long-lasting marine heat wave that became known as "the blob" was responsible for the death of nearly one million seabirds in the Pacific Ocean in 2015 and 2016, a new study reveals.

According to CNN, which reported on the study Thursday: The blob devastated the murres' population. With insufficient food, breeding colonies across the entire region had reproductive difficulties ...

The gaseous blob's orbit around Sagittarius A* is equivalent in size to the orbit of Mercury around the sun. But the blazing blob completes a full rotation around the black hole every 70 minutes ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured high-resolution images to reveal a hot, slightly off-center “blob” (inset to left) within the core of Supernova 1987A.

"In the 1960s scientists developed the idea that Hawaii's volcanoes lie above a very large, hot blob, or plume, of rock that is rising very slowly deep inside the Earth's mantle," University of ...

Scientists believe the hot blob off the east coast of New Zealand is contributing to a decade long drought in Chile. Photograph: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Environment ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A big, hot blob hiding beneath the bottom of the world could be evidence of a long-sought mantle plume under West Antarctica, researchers said Monday (Dec. 9) here at the annual ...