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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

A hot blob of rock seems to be rising toward the surface beneath the North American tectonic plate, under a part of New England. (Credit: iStock) (DenisTangneyJr) ...

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.

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 ...