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 ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Researchers from the Australian National University used seismic waves generated by earthquakes to peer into the Earth's mysterious ... This donut-like structure runs parallel to the equator ...

Claims that researchers discovered previously unknown structures beneath the Pyramid of Khafre — the pyramid situated in the ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire depth or if the mantle is layered has long been debated. Recent research suggests that spatially and temporally intermittent or ...

After decades of debate, scientists confirm the moon has a solid iron core—mirroring Earth’s inner structure and reshaping ... The moon’s Earth-like layered core—solid inner and molten ...