Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...

The Earth is leaking. The good news is this isn’t bad news, because the Earth is leaking gold and other precious metals.

The South Atlantic Anomaly(SAA), a region of weakened magnetic field over South America and the Atlantic, is intensifying. This disruption is affecting satellites, the International Space Station, and ...

Earth’s core has two layers: a solid inner core made of iron and nickel and a liquid outer core of molten metal. The solid core is about 70% the size of the moon. The outer core extends 1,800 ...

The core of the Red Planet may be filled with sulfur. New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

A liquid metal outer core is about 1,400 miles thick and extends to about 1,800 miles below the surface, or right up to the mantle.In contrast, the mantle, which lies between the planet’s outer ...