New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

For decades, researchers have known that Earth’s inner core behaves strangely, acting both solid and oddly soft at the same ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well. When you purchase through links on ...