(CNN) — There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, ...

Two enormous and enigmatic masses of hot rock near the planet's core may play a crucial role in generating the Earth's ...

A new study reveals a detailed look at what lies beneath the Hawaiian hotspot.

While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

New England's White Mountains are a subrange of the northern Appalachian Mountains. - Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot ...