The Earth is made up of four major layers: the surface crust, the semi-molten mantle, a liquid metal outer core, and a solid metal inner core. When the movement ... convection currents coupled with ...

A new study suggests Earth's inner core may be backtracking, following a 70-year cycle of speeding up and slowing down, ...

The difference in direction between those forces is enough to create an axis of rotation ... its environment, the inner Solar System was populated by perhaps a hundred protoplanets, each about five ...

Scientists are using advanced simulations to explore the aftermath of neutron star collisions, where remnants might form and ...

The tangent cylinder is an imaginary structure that runs parallel to the axis around which Earth spins, and touches the ...