A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

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

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...

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

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