Scientists have discovered that the inner core's surface is changing shape, challenging previous assumptions about its solid ...

The Earth’s inner core is 3,000 miles below the surface and was thought to be a solid sphere held by gravity in the molten ...

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

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

gives an almost complete view of the planet taken a week before the northern hemisphere's summer solstice. The swathes of blue dominating the image show that Earth's name is misleading: 70 per cent of ...

the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin, with liquid water on its ...

certain aspects of Earth's geology keep the plate tectonic engine chugging along. For a planet to sustain plate tectonics, it must have a convective mantle, Foley said. Cold, dense surface ...