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

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

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

A 2471 B.C. solar eclipse may have triggered a break from Egypt’s sun worship, influencing Pharaoh Shepsekaf’s defiance and ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

The work was done by Haruki Takezawa and Kei Hirose at the University of Tokyo and colleagues, who suggest that Earth’s core could host a vast reservoir of primordial helium-3 – reshaping our ...

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 ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

It has support from the Trump administration and has advanced thanks to oil and gas techniques. But it accounts for just 1 ...

Credit: Yuri_Arcurs via Getty Images Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside Earth's solid core, new research suggests. The findings could have implications ...