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

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

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

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

A 250-mile-wide, monster hot rock anomaly is quietly advancing under New England, defying centuries of assumptions regarding the geologic peacefulness of northeastern United States. The Northern ...

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

However, scientists are scratching their heads trying to understand why this blob has been quietly on the move for so long. It was first believed to be a piece of landmass leftover when North America ...

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

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

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

A massive, slow-moving heat anomaly is rising beneath the surface of New England, and it’s challenging long-held assumptions ...