Angle down icon An icon in the shape of a downward pointing corner. The Earth’s inner core is showing unusual behavior. Christoph Burgstedt/Getty Images Scientists have been debating what happens to the Earth’s inner core for years. A new study provides compelling evidence that the inner core has changed direction and is slowing down. The … Read more
One of the major questions that has occupied Earth scientists over the past decade is, “What’s going on down there?” Beneath your feet, some 3,400 miles deep, lies the Earth’s inner core. It’s nearly the size of the moon, as hot as the surface of the sun, and helps maintain the planet’s magnetic field, which … Read more
LOS ANGELES — According to new research, Earth’s inner core, a massive iron sphere deep within our planet, has slowed its rotation. Scientists at the University of Southern California say their discovery challenges previous views about the behavior of the inner core and raises intriguing questions about its influence on Earth’s dynamics. It has long … Read more
Astronomers have discovered three ancient stars “on the run” in the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, racing in the wrong direction at hundreds of thousands of kilometers per hour. Despite being bright for their age, the three stars are so old that they date back to the time when the first galaxies formed. That … Read more