Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...
Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...
Researchers at the University of Southern California say they’ve unraveled the mystery of why Earth’s inner core has been ...
Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.
At the center of our planet is a very hot rotating ball of mostly iron and nickel (sorry Journey to the Center of the Earth ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
The surface of the Earth's inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural ...