Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of the earth viewed from space, with the sun in the background. Although we can't feel Earth spinning, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central layer of the Earth is believed to be a solid ball of iron and nickel metal about 1,500 miles across. That’s roughly ...

Earth’s core has long been a place of mystery to scientists. The core of our planet sits just over 1,800 miles below the surface and exists as a ball of seething hot metal, specifically iron and ...

The rotation of the Earth's inner core may be reversing, scientists have found in a study that sheds new light on geological processes occurring deep within our planet. The results of the research, ...

Earth’s solid inner core layer may have paused its rotation recently and started to spin in the opposite direction instead, according to a new study. The research could further the understanding of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) -A bit of news you didn’t expect, in a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience, scientists announced that they believe the Earth’s inner core has stopped spinning. Scientists ...

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Earth's inner core may have paused and reversed its spin, a new study suggests. Earthquakes and nuclear blasts can send seismic waves through the mysterious solid-iron core. Those waves hint that the ...

Earth’s rotation patterns may have shifted more than a decade ago without any of us noticing. According to a newly published study, researchers have spent the last 60 years examining seismic waves ...