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

The work was done by Haruki Takezawa and Kei Hirose at the University of Tokyo and colleagues, who suggest that Earth’s core could host a vast reservoir of primordial helium-3 – reshaping our ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

A new study reports that researchers have successfully used a meticulously designed cylinder to harness electricity as it ...

According to a recent study, the Earth's inner core, that is a solid ball of iron and nickel, is slowing down in relation to the planet's surface. The same was confirmed by USC scientists ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

They conclude that the best-fit model describes a small inner core making up 13% of the mass of the planet, a mantle ...

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

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...