Scientists have raised concerns that the Earth's inner core may completely halt its rotation by 2040, according to a recent ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Earth’s magnetic field and more. Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin? “After decades of research and debates, we ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core, long believed to be stable, may be undergoing structural changes, including a ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

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Earth’s magnetic field and more. “After decades of research and debates, we are coming to an ever-clearer picture of the changing inner core,” says Xiaodong Song, a seismologist at Peking ...

The inner core spins independently from the liquid outer core and from the rest of the planet. Without this motion, Earth ...

Scientists suggest Earth's inner core may have changed shape over the past 20 years, potentially affecting the planet's ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...