Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

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.

The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

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

Earth's inner core may have changed shape, according to researchers studying unknown transformations deep within the planet.

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Mars spacecraft teamed up with an AI model to find a new impact crater on on the Martian surface, changing our understanding ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

How do seismic waves travel within the interior of Mars? This is what two recent studies published in Geophysical Research ...

JHU-led study on 2024 Iran earthquake shows potential consequences of mishandling and misinterpreting scientific information, ...

The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, a seismologist has warned. Rémy Bossu, Secretary-General of the ...

And hidden structures or pockets of unblended material, such as these supercontinents, may shape mantle activity ... clues about Earth’s deep interior. Over the decades, seismic data revealed ...