Recent findings suggest that Earth’s mantle might harbor hidden plumes venting heat from the planet’s core, a discovery that ...

The rotation of Earth’s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores.

[Related: A rare gas is leaking from Earth’s core. Could it be a clue to the planet’s creation?] The Earth’s inner core is separated from the rest of the solid Earth by its liquid outer core ...

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the ...

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Now, scientists believe that Earth’s inner core might be less solid than we previously thought. The findings are detailed in a study published February 10 in the journal Nature Geoscience and ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing.

The new research from the University of Southern California, now published in Nature, noticed that the Earth’s inner core was moving slower than the surface, termed “backtracking,” and has ...

Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface. The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earth’s inner core, a solid metal ball gyrating within the molten outer core, may be both slowing down and changing shape. Recent analyses of earthquake waves have suggested ...

EARTH'S inner core is rotating more slowly and has changed direction, experts have confirmed. The inner core is a solid iron-nickel sphere around the size of the Moon. A new paper has found ...