A lot of people these days advocate not judge people’s personalities, but can we as humans stop doing that? When we meet someone or read or listen to someone, we form an image of that person in our ...

Deep beneath our feet, far below the crust and mantle, Earth’s metallic heart is not as sealed off as geologists once assumed ...

The giant iron ball at the center of the Earth appears to be spinning a bit faster than the rest of the planet. The solid core that measures about 1,500 miles in diameter is spinning about one-quarter ...

Quakes on Mars have unveiled its interior to an unprecedented degree, revealing surprising details about the Red Planet's crust, mantle and core. Measurements taken by NASA's InSight (Interior ...

NASA’s Mars InSight has provided … well, insight, into the inner workings of the Red Planet. By monitoring “marsquakes” over the past two years the instrument has allowed scientists to measure the ...

Discover why the melting of the Earth's inner core may be influenced by plate tectonics and volcanic activity, linking geology and core dynamics. What’s the News: In geologists’ traditional view of ...

Our planet's core is 2.5 years younger than the crust, a new study found. Researchers calculated the crust's relative ages and compared it with the core's age estimates. Apart from shedding new light ...

For the first time, we know what the interior of another planet similar to ours looks like. In a trio of studies published Thursday in the journal Science, an international team of more than 40 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A huge slab of folded Earth that scientists think used to be part of the ocean floor has been ...

I’m eyeing the toast-butter-jam sandwiches outside Alsa Mall. But we decide to be la-di-dah and sit in a coffee shop instead. Coffee Day, smack in front of us, is the obvious choice. It has the air of ...

We've learned a lot about our planet's interior simply by tracking how the seismic energy released by earthquakes moves through or reflects off the different layers present beneath Earth's surface.