However, scientists are scratching their heads trying to understand why this blob has been quietly on the move for so long.

Officially dubbed the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), this subterranean slimeball sits 125 feet deep underground and ...

"Heat at the base of a continent can weaken and remove part of its dense root, making the continent lighter and more buoyant, ...

Is this the beginning of Goo York City? The name, presented with a smile by geologists, embodies both the levity and ...

A massive, heated rock formation, dubbed the 'hot blob' or Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), is situated 200 km beneath the ...

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 blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the ...

Scientists reveal a superhot geological 'blob' moving toward New York City, impacting the Appalachian Mountains' elevation.

The ‘hot blob’ is officially called Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), and lies 125 feet deep underground and extends 220 ...

Deep heat beneath the Appalachian Mountains may be linked to an ancient rift with Greenland, helping explain why the range is ...

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

Map showing the origin of the Northern Appalachian Anomaly when Greenland and North America split, and its journey more than ...