A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have questions, though.

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Rare earths, which President Donald Trump hopes to secure from Ukraine as part of a deal for US aid, are strategic metals essential for industries developing computers, batteries, and cutting-edge ...

In 2021 and 2022, NASA’s InSight lander picked up the tremors coming from the depths of Mars. These Marsquakes were quickly ...

There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit: Left to right: Wysiati, ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft ... probably when watery ponds on Bennu’s parent asteroid evaporated and left behind a crust of ...

While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints the magnetic North Pole – where Earth's magnetic field points straight ...

Sir James Clark Ross discovered magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada. British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting towards Russia at an ...

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle, a slowly-moving layer between Earth’s crust and core. Because seismic waves pass more slowly through these ...

“With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth’s mantle. But we don’t know exactly what they are.” The anomalies may be ancient subducted slabs—fragments of ...