Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Scientists study the inner core to learn how Earth’s deep interior formed and how activity connects across all the planet’s ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is ...

It helps to visualize this: Earth’s inner core is a solid ball that is surrounded by a fluid outer core. This is how it can rotate at a different pace compared to the planet’s outer layers ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history.

We are unsure of the nature of the strange doughnut-shaped structure discovered inside the Earth's core. We thought Earth had ...

What is increasingly clear is that the inner core is susceptible in different ways to activity in the layers of Earth that encircle it. "The mechanics are that the outer core is circulating and ...

Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A new study published in Nature Geoscience claims that the Earth’s inner core may ...

Inner core The inner core is 2900 km below the Earth’s surface, in the centre of the Earth, and is the hottest layer. It is spherical and solid and made up of iron and nickel. Its temperatures ...