Not only is Earth's ... of the inner core is moving around in ways we hadn't detected and still don't understand very well." ...

Deep beneath our feet, the Earth’s core is a world of extreme heat and pressure. It is made of molten metals like iron, gold, and platinum. The temperature can reach up to 6,000 degrees Celsius.

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Physicists suggest a new explanation for the interesting properties of the Earth's inner core. Credit: NASA / Getty Images According to a new "holy grail" scientific discovery, the blazing-hot ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The Earth has a ... moves very slowly, like a liquid. The tectonic plates float on top of the mantle, meaning the tectonic plates and the mantle move at the same time. The core is made of iron ...

This allows materials with different densities to separate, with metals like iron and nickel sinking to the inside to form a core and lighter rocks “floating” on top. By the time of the moon-forming ...

However, many years ago, the Earth looked ... on a map of the world. Look at the map. Can you work out where the continents were connected? South America links together like a jigsaw puzzle ...

Like the other noble gases ... and the new compounds suggest that Earth’s iron-rich core could hold some of that helium. But the team will need additional experiments to determine whether ...