The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

Other observational techniques including seismology and in-situ sampling have revealed the structure and composition of planetary interiors (primarily for Earth and its Moon, but soon for Mars as well ...

Our planet's interior is much too deep and hot to explore with probes, so scientists rely on seismic waves to understand and model its structure. Seismic waves are shock waves tha ...

is located deep within the Earth. However, according to recent research, there is an additional structure that was somehow missed and not detected. When scientists analysed the inner core using ...

The differences in composition between these two layers ... "Our research provides important connections between shallow and deep Earth structure and the overall processes driving our planet ...