Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

The rotation of Earth’s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores.

Our planet's core is rich in gold that can leak out into the mantle, and in some cases, end up in volcanos on the surface, according to a new study.

New research reveals that Earth's core is leaking gold. Precious metals are moving from the core to the mantle and crust.

In a groundbreaking studypublished in Seismological Research Letters, Australian National University (ANU) scientists have ...

∎ The structure of Earth's core could be unlike any other state of matter, researchers have found. According to new research published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature ...

Life on Earth became possible when the planet's solid inner core emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, according to new research. Scientists said that around 565 million years ago ...

Earth’s core consists of a solid iron-nickel ball rotating within a layer of liquid metal. But that ball may not be as simple as it seems: new research suggests the inner core contains its own ...

EARTH'S inner core is rotating more slowly and has changed ... these day-length changes and publish papers containing their research. Previous studies have determined that days may eventually ...

Climate change is altering the Earth to its literal core, new research suggests. As polar and glacial ice melts because of global warming, water that was once concentrated at the top and the ...

Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.