Studying Earth’s core presents a unique challenge for scientists. Obviously, sending a field team to the core is out of the ...

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An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core may not be as solid as previously believed. Scientists studying seismic waveforms have discovered structural changes in the core, which challenge ...

Brian Cox and Robin Ince slice deep into the lesser explored world beneath us. To join them on the journey from the crust to the core they are joined by seismologist Ana Ferreira, geologist Chris ...

Deep-seated mantle structures known as LLSVPs have been found to be over a billion years old, affecting tectonic activity.

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

Test your knowledge of earthquakes, their causes, impacts, and how they are measured with this informative quiz.

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Learn how forces deep underground generate a protective bubble between us and space.

Our planet, Earth, is structurally composed of a series of concentric internal spherical layers that are divided into: crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core and inner core. Every ...