NOVA Core, built by Valar Atomics, achieved zero-power criticality at LANL's National Criticality Experiments Research Center ...

Mercury’s core may be wearing a metal jacket. New experiments suggest the planet’s innards stay warm thanks to an insulating layer of iron sulfide, which could help to explain how the small world has ...

With only geophysical data to help us probe the centre of the Earth, the properties and dynamo-generating dynamics of Earth's metal-rich core remain poorly understood. In this web focus, we present a ...

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, a new movie called “The Core” adds yet another potential doomsday to the list: a disruption in Earth’s magnetic field that sparks a global cataclysm. It may ...

Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of miles beneath the Earth’s surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet’s liquid core. The ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In elementary school science class, we learned that the Earth has ...

Georgetown University requires all undergraduate students to complete a course designated “Science For All” (SFA), grounded in the belief that all Georgetown students should understand scientific ...

Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known the inner core is solid thanks to the pioneering work of Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who first proposed its ...

We live on the most comfortable of planets. It may not be too visible, but the Earth’s magnetic field plays a critical role in maintaining that comfort. The remaining rocky planets in our Solar System ...

New research suggests that Earth's 'solid' inner core is, in fact, endowed with a range of liquid, soft, and hard structures which vary across the top 150 miles of the inner core. 3,200 miles beneath ...