Full Moon 2025! Learn why it’s called the Snow Moon, when to see it, and which planets will be visible alongside this ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

The surface of the Earth's inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Earth’s inner core is changing shape, scientists have found.

Your two-year-old is crying. Her forehead is hot and you fear she’s running a fever. You rush to get a thermometer. You grab one, but in your haste, you drop it. It breaks, ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

Ninety percent of the atmospheric mercury that falls into Minnesota lakes and streams and makes our fish unsafe to eat comes from outside of the state.  There may not be much we can do about that, ...