Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists ...

As per the clip, the magnetic tune is otherworldly and creepy, like the title soundtrack to a deep space horror thriller or ...

As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field ...

It is now thought that the source of this anomaly was a phase transition in which one mineral’s structure was altered.

Scientists detect a solid inner core on Mars for the first time, revealing a new chapter in planetary evolution.

A quiet but measurable shift in Earth’s gravity field between 2006 and 2008 has baffled scientists for years. Now, nearly two decades on, new research suggests the anomaly may have been triggered by a ...

Kempe and Weiss’s research marks a breakthrough, the first natural evidence of nickel-rich alloys at the depths long ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit ...

Alfred Wilson-Spencer receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grants NE/T000228/1 and NE/V010867/1. He works for the University of Leeds. The iron-rich core at the centre ...

As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...

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