A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

Earth's inner core has changed shape over the past 20 years. A team of scientists studied the core's behavior to understand why its rotation slowed down ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds ... "With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth's mantle.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

To understand this, the team of researchers created a downward-bending model of the Earth’s surface ... a redistribution of stress within the Earth’s crust occurs when the plates break ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help scientists learn about submerged volcanoes and strengthen ...

Their model estimates that it took Earth 500 million years to neutralize ocean acidity enough to support life. While pockets ...