Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

One mystery we haven't solved yet is how the core has "frozen" solid from a molten liquid state in its past. "The Earth’s inner core was once liquid, but has turned solid over time. As the Earth ...

A new study may have finally solved the mystery of how the giant blobs were formed deep inside Earth. While previous theories focused on ancient debris from space and Earth's formation ...

The team, led by the researchers at the University of Southampton, say their findings have solved the “long-standing mystery ... Earth’s mantle – the layer between the crust and the core.

Great escarpments can be found in southern Africa, India, Brazil and Australia The mystery of how some of the Earth's most dramatic landforms came into being has been solved, scientists believe.

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

It contains the core calculations of what would become Milanković’s life’s work: solving the math behind how Earth’s orbit slowly changes over time to influence the amount of sunlight ...