Our planet may have had a recent change of heart. Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience.

With only geophysical data to help us probe the centre of the Earth, the properties and dynamo-generating dynamics of Earth's metal-rich core remain poorly understood. In this web focus, we present a ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...

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Deep beneath the Pacific near the equator, Earth’s outer core now flows east instead of west. Dynamics deeper within our planet’s core may help explain the change and what to expect in the near future ...

Earth's inner core may be filled with a weird substance that is neither solid nor liquid, according to a new study. "We find that hydrogen, oxygen and carbon in hexagonal close-packed iron transform ...