Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Earth’s crust discovery unveils surprising findings. The post Earth’s Crust Discovery Unveils Surprising Findings appeared ...

Scientists released an updated version of the World Magnetic Model (WMM) because they needed to adapt to these continuous ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

The next layer is the mantle, which makes up most of Earth's volume and is composed of dense, semi-solid rock. Then there is the outer core, made of liquid metal, and the inner core, a solid ball ...

SEE ALSO: Astronomers may have solved one of Webb's first puzzles For context: the Earth's center is a solid metal inner core surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. It's about 750 miles thick ...

A 2471 B.C. solar eclipse may have triggered a break from Egypt’s sun worship, influencing Pharaoh Shepsekaf’s defiance and ...

Its solidification causes convection in the outer core. Convection is "the engine that powers the dynamo that converts kinetic energy into magnetic energy and maintains Earth's global magnetic ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... in diameter. Although this inner core is white hot, the pressure is so high the iron cannot melt. The iron isn't pure—scientists believe ...

When a sodium-filled model of the Earth’s outer core spins at full speed, it could generate a dynamo. Courtesy Daniel P. Lathrop In a large, warehouse-like laboratory on the University of ...