A lunar model suggests Earth’s tidal pull could concentrate heat near the Moon’s core, offering a possible clue to its ...

Unusual hydrogen signatures in volcanic rocks may come from Earth’s core. Simulations suggest ancient magma crystallization ...

A battle of forces, driven by the motion of Earth’s core, can explain small variations in the planet’s rotation, study finds.

The mantle, a rocky layer accounting for more than 80% of Earth's volume, circulates at rates of only a few centimeters per year. This circulation drives plate tectonics and influences major ...

Earth's length of day swings a few milliseconds over 60 to 70 years, and a 2026 Nature study ties it to the inner core's gravitational pull on the mantle ...

When Earth formed billions of years ago, its metallic core was wrapped in a global ocean of molten rock, which eventually ...

Earth’s core has been holding onto materials from the planet’s earliest days for roughly 4.5 billion years. Now, scientists ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers discovered that bridgmanite deep in the mantle can store far more water at high ...

(johan63/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever ...

Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But ...