Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

Discovered in December, the near-Earth asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to be 130 feet to 300 feet across.

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science community has a nearly 98% chance of zooming by Earth without ...

Earth's Inner Core Is Undergoing a Transformation Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is ...

what happens at the ICB still has some implications for Earth’s long-term evolution.” Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science ...

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Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet’s history and require many complex processes working at once, according to new research.