Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter’s largest moon is the only moon known to generate its own ...

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No one knows why the river of liquid iron flowing 1,400 miles beneath our feet just reversed course.

Earth's magnetic field may have been similarly as strong 3.7 billion years ago as it is today, pushing the earliest date for this planetary protective bubble back 200 million years. The new study ...

Scientists discovered a mysterious reversal in Earth’s molten core flow beneath the Pacific using satellite data from space.

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Geophysicists from ETH Zurich and SUSTech, China, have demonstrated the dynamo effect of the Earth’s core in a model in which viscosity has no influence, as is the correct physical regime for the ...

Back in my day, there were only four layers of Earth: the crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core. Now, scientists have revealed a new, distinct layer within our planet’s inner core, ...

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists ...