At the center of our planet is a very hot rotating ball of mostly iron and nickel (sorry Journey to the Center of the Earth ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

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 ...

Scientists have been baffled by the recent discovery that the inner core of the Earth could be changing shape. The inner core ...

This appears to be the case, to a rather stunning extent, in the instance of the reporting this week around new findings that researchers say shows the rotation of Earth’s inner core is slowing ...

Other studies have also claimed that the core can experience a “subrotation,” meaning that the innermost core ... found that in 2009, the inner core’s super-rotation appeared to have ceased ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...

Scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) have made a groundbreaking discovery â the Earth's inner core has ...

The inner core of Earth appears to hold an innermost secret. Geology textbooks almost inevitably include a cutaway diagram of Earth showing four neatly delineated layers: a thin outer shell of ...

An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth's innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...