An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

The internal, infernal machinations of our planet may be way more complex than we suspected. A new, detailed probe of Earth's heart reveals that the rotating inner core doesn't just change in rotation ...

What is the speed and timing of the Earth’s inner core cooling? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the composition ...

Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of miles beneath the Earth’s surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet’s liquid core. The ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 2 (January 11, 2022), pp. 1-6 (6 pages) The Earth's inner core started forming when molten iron cooled ...