Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

In a groundbreaking studypublished in Seismological Research Letters, Australian National University (ANU) scientists have ...

Our planet's core is rich in gold that can leak out into the mantle, and in some cases, end up in volcanos on the surface, according to a new study.

∎ The structure of Earth's core could be unlike any other state of matter, researchers have found. According to new research published Monday in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature ...

Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote ...

To answer these questions, it is easiest to start with the amount of gold that humans have mined to date. The U.S. Geological ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely ... At least, that is what scientists thought. New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience ...

EARTH'S inner core is rotating more slowly and has changed ... these day-length changes and publish papers containing their research. Previous studies have determined that days may eventually ...

When his team members embarked on their research, they did not expect to document structural changes to Earth’s inner core. Instead,they were focused on learning more about the slowing of its ...

Climate change is altering the Earth to its literal core, new research suggests. As polar and glacial ice melts because of global warming, water that was once concentrated at the top and the ...