The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe. A new study has seen scientists unexpectedly find that the inner core of our planet is changing its physical ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Now, JWST may have revealed evidence that our entire universe exists inside the event horizon of a black hole inside a larger ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Scientists have possibly solved the mystery of the Indian Ocean Geoid Low, a large gravity anomaly discovered in 1948. They ...