A recent study investigating giant "island" structures near Earth's core has deepened the mystery surrounding them: As well as suggesting they are truly ancient structures, the research may alter ...

It looks like we might have to rewrite the textbooks. What we have always known about the Earth’s inner core has changed, and researchers have provided us with new information. Scientists recently ...

Our history. Research shows there are little-known chapters in that history, deep within Earth's past. In fact, Earth's inner core appears to have another even more inner core within it.

In fact, Earth's inner core appears to have another even more inner core within it. "Traditionally we've been taught the Earth has four main layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the ...

A team of scientists led by Joanne Stephenson from the Australian National University (ANU) has made a surprising discovery about Earth's inner core. Their research suggests that the core may have an ...

The findings could transform researchers’ understanding of plate tectonics and how plate movement might be shaped by these ancient, fixed anchors near Earth’s core, Deuss said. Further ...

Extreme heat will reach dangerous levels – even for younger people – across an area equivalent to the size of the United States if Earth's global warming hits two degrees Celsius ... They considered ...

They drilled down almost two miles to extract 2.8-km of ice core, reaching the actual bedrock ... the ice are “like tiny time capsules of Earth’s atmospheric past”. The samples equate ...

What's more, they believe that the core is around 18 percent of Mars's radius, pretty similar in size to Earth's inner core, which is around 19 percent of Earth's radius. While the proportions are ...