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

Currently, the rotation between the inner and outer cores is becoming less distinct. When researchers say “reverse,” they mean the inner core is rotating slightly slower than the outer core, Brown ...

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

Diagram of Earth's structure showing inner core, outer core ... Vigorous movements driven by Earth's rotation and convection currents of the electrically conductive liquid create a magnetic ...

Scientists Confirm Earth's Inner Core Rotation is Slowing Down, and is Now Slower than the Surface Scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) have confirmed that the Earth's inner ...

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 ...

Mars rotates on its axis every 24.6 Earth hours, defining the length of a Martian day, which is called a sol (short for “solar day”). Mars’s axis of rotation ... have had an inner dynamo ...