Earth” located 560 light-years away in the Draco constellation, has left astronomers amazed by its immense size and unexpected composition. Weighing 17 times more than Earth, this rocky giant ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

To download a pdf of this article, visit cenm.ag/earth-composition. References used to create this graphic: American Museum of Natural History. "Inge Lehmann: Discoverer of the Earth’s Inner ...

It is located in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Transition Zone (APTZ), the major structure of which, the Sassandra Shear Zone (SSZ) trending NS then NW-SE, moulds the Archean core (or nucleus). The ...

Scientists may have discovered an ancient structure surrounding the Earth's core beneath the southern hemisphere.

Earth is divided into three layers, and deep within the planet lies some of the best-kept secrets that could reveal the origins of the planet we call home. Scientists have long tried to understand ...

The lithosphere is the mechanically rigid outermost layer of the Earth. The lithosphere is inhomogeneous, with large thickness variations as well as variable geophysical properties like seismic ...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have recently reported about the discovery of a doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers within Earth’s liquid core. The Earth’s liquid ...