An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

was studying seismic images of Earth’s mantle located beneath Turkey for his doctoral research when he spotted signs of partly molten rock. He began his work in 2020 while a doctoral student at ...

More NASA via Getty Images In their research paper ... where life is found; the mantle, Earth's thickest layer; the molten outer core and the solid inner core, which is, in turn, composed of ...

A new study analyzing decades of seismogram data shows that physical changes can occur at the surface of the Earth’s inner ... chaotic outer core. “The molten outer core is widely known ...

It turns out, however, that's not the whole picture. The Earth's inner ... magnetism of our planet stems from how the molten metal in the Earth's core swishes around, knowing exactly how the ...

Researchers believe that they have evidence to prove that precious metals are leaking from the Earth's core and making their ...

"The molten outer core is widely known to be turbulent, but its turbulence had not been observed to disrupt its neighbor the inner core on a human timescale," John Vidale, a professor and earth ...

Earth’s core ... at the inner core’s shallow boundary. This interaction between the inner and outer core is likely the cause of this structural change. “The molten outer core is widely ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth’s surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. It's believed to play an important role in maintaining the planet’s ...