New research suggests that Earth’s solid inner core might not be as rigid as once believed. Instead, it could exist in an ...

Forget a doomsday asteroid or melting permafrost. It’s the freezing of Earth’s core that will end the world in today’s ...

New research suggests that the Earth's solid inner core is softer and more dynamic than previously thought, changing ideas.

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found. A new study of isotopes found in the volcanic rock that oozed out from deep under ...

The solid inner core at the center of the Earth, surrounded by the outer core, mantle and crust. Here’s why: While it is well known that a material must be at or below its freezing temperature to be ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...