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

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

We don't even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

We don’t even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

We don't even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...

Almost all of Earth’s gold is hundreds of feet below the surface. But some of it is oozing from the core into the mantle.

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...