A new model of the deep Earth allows geophysicists to measure variations in Earth's temperature near the boundary between the rocky mantle and core. Using a recently discovered phase change in the ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

COOK1 has shown that, in the Earth's gravitational potential when developed into a series of zonal spherical harmonics, the coefficients are influenced to the fourth harmonic by the ...

The interior of the Earth, like that of the other terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core ...

Earth’s Interior (Structure of the Earth) The structure of earth is in spherical form and is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid.

The Earth has a layered structure made up of crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. Find out more in this BBC Bitesize guide for students aged 11-14.

Our universe is vast and getting larger every day, but humanity's understanding of the cosmos is growing too. Tour the universe from the Big Bang to planet Earth in this SPACE.com infographic series.

Stock image: A 3D rendering showing the structure of planet Earth. What is the hottest layer of the Earth? iStock Below this is the dense inner core, which is around 750 miles thick and consists ...

The amounts of carbon dioxide and other trace gases that vegetation and soil exchange with the atmosphere affect the climate in a variety of ways. Markus Reichstein and his colleagues at the Max ...

Scientists have discovered a vast donut-shaped structure hidden within Earth which could hold the secret to why life was able to form on our planet.