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

Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

Earth’s crust discovery unveils surprising findings. The post Earth’s Crust Discovery Unveils Surprising Findings appeared ...

The next layer is the mantle, which makes up most of Earth's volume and is composed of dense, semi-solid rock. Then there is the outer core, made of liquid metal, and the inner core, a solid ball ...

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

Its solidification causes convection in the outer core. Convection is "the engine that powers the dynamo that converts kinetic energy into magnetic energy and maintains Earth's global magnetic ...

Scientists released an updated version of the World Magnetic Model (WMM) because they needed to adapt to these continuous ...

SEE ALSO: Astronomers may have solved one of Webb's first puzzles For context: the Earth's center is a solid metal inner core surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. It's about 750 miles thick ...

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

When a sodium-filled model of the Earth’s outer core spins at full speed, it could generate a dynamo. Courtesy Daniel P. Lathrop In a large, warehouse-like laboratory on the University of ...

The outer core is liquid iron and nickel and generates the Earth's magnetic field. And the inner core is made of solid iron and nickel. The surface of the earth is constantly changing. It's the ...