At the extreme pressures found at the bottom of the Earth's outer core, iron assumes a stronger form to cope with the stress in a process called 'twinning'. This is the conclusion of a study by ...

Scientists have uncovered a vast donut-shaped structure buried thousands of miles beneath our feet. Researchers from the Australian National University used seismic waves generated by earthquakes to ...

Australian scientists hail finding as a step in unlocking secrets of planet’s protective magnetic field By travelling to the centre of the Earth via seismic waves scientists have discovered a ...

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometres beneath our feet within Earth’s liquid core has been discovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU), providing new clues about ...

The solid inner core is contained within the liquid outer core, enabling it to rotate differently from the Earth itself Earth’s inner core appears to have stopped spinning faster than its mantle. New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Research shows that the Earth’s rotation goes through cycles. (NASA / Unsplash) A new study has found that Earth’s inner core may ...

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth’s inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the surface ...

The spinning core at the centre of Earth may have recently stopped rotating, relative to the surface, as part of a seven-decade cycle, scientists have said. A study said the inner core, which is the ...