As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving ...

All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends on the two-part engine under the hood. Directly beneath Earth’s ...

But a few years ago, Stephenson and colleagues found evidence Earth's inner core may actually have two distinct layers. "It's very exciting – and might mean we have to re-write the textbooks ...

However, the theory has a flaw: Earth's core was completely liquid before Earth's inner core crystallized—around 1 billion years ago.

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably back in its early days when its inner core was fully liquid &ndash ...

Have you ever wondered what a star looks like before it goes supernova? Scientists are making new discoveries about how ...