Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

We don't even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

We don’t even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

We don't even know how old it is. Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth's magnetic field, which acts like a shield ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...

Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote ...

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There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...