In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...

A major scientific breakthrough has settled a decades-old debate about the moon’s interior. Researchers have confirmed that the moon has a solid inner core, similar to Earth’s, composed of iron with a ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an instability ... of Oxford seismologist Paula Koelemeijer. The layers of ...

That's because it means helium could be mixed up in the core, where iron is in its most highly pressurized state in or on Earth. In fact, according to a team led by physicist Haruki Takezawa of the ...

Where the Earth’s core meets the mantle, there are two giant regions that have baffled geologists for fifty years. A new piece of the puzzle has now emerged with the discovery that they have ...