Earth's inner core, composed primarily of iron with a small percentage of light elements, may enter a superionic state at ...

(Rob Atkins/Getty Images) You probably remember learning about Earth's internal layers when you were a kid in Earth Sciences ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research suggests Earth's core may store up to 45 oceans' worth of hydrogen, reshaping theories of water's origin. (CREDIT: ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth's most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Where Earth got most of its water is a subject of debate, but a new study suggests that the planet’s largest reservoir of hydrogen is not the ocean, ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe evidence that traces of precious metals from Earth’s metallic core, ...

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior of earthquake waves, in Earth's inner core. A team led by scientists from ...

Two continent-sized structures deep inside Earth may contain remnants of Theia, the ancient planet thought to have collided ...

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 ...

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Cartoon of the Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced by the geodynamo extend into space and interact with the solar wind. The iron-rich core at ...