Earth's inner layers have just got a bit more complicated, with scientists discovering a whole new inner core within the center of the planet. Research released on February 21 in the journal Nature ...

Except for the thin crust we live on, Earth's structure is intangible deep beneath our feet, and as a result hard to imagine. Foods are often used to demonstrate how Earth is made of four main layers, ...

Over the last several thousand years, humanity has done a pretty good job of tossing a lasso around nature, hog-tying it, and tucking it away in a corner. From moment to moment, most of us walk around ...

Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a theory that our planet has a distinct ball of iron within its metallic core.

Researchers are still discovering more about the Earth's center. A team at Australian National University (ANU) has found evidence of a new layer to the planet sitting within the inner core. This ...

A new study defies what has been known to humans for decades now, where previous knowledge about the four layers of the Earth sees debunking from this latest discovery. It is common knowledge that the ...

Using seismic waveform data, researchers believe they’ve discovered Earth’s even smaller inner core. The new inner core is made up of about 400 miles of dense iron, the researchers say. Seismic waves ...

Most of us learned in school that the Earth has four layers in its internal structure: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. But recent research reveals that the inner core itself ...

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Researchers have observed a newly discovered innermost core of the earth. Seismic station see up-to-fivefold reverberating waves from selected earthquakes along the Earth’s diameter. Differential ...

An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth's innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Data captured from seismic waves caused by ...