Scientists have discovered that the inner core's surface is changing shape, challenging previous assumptions about its solid ...

When scientists analysed the inner core using seismic waves produced by earthquakes, they discovered differences in density and composition ... which directly affect the flow of the outer core. A key ...

Earth's inner core may have changed shape, according to researchers studying unknown transformations deep within the planet.

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle ... But not much else about their composition or origin is known. To gain more information, Deuss and her colleagues ...

In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David Nash has finally uncovered the long-standing mystery surrounding the ...

Understanding Earth’s Core Earth's core is the heart of our planet; it's a fiery furnace where temperatures soar higher than ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

The two giant blobs — one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its outer core ... such as a change in composition, must be ...