On July 9, 2025, scientists at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) reported that the Earth ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

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

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Earth’s core holds key information about Earth’s formation and evolution, and it contributes to massive planetary process such as plate tectonics and geomagnetism.

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want to know why ...

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 ...