New research from Florida State University and Rice University is providing a better estimate of the amount of carbon in the Earth’s outer core, and the work suggests the core could be the planet’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Earth's molten outer core is critical to life on our planet. Churning some 2,900 kilometers beneath the surface, it's a vast "sea" ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The chemistry at the center of our planet has eluded scientists for ...

Deep below the Earth's surface lies the outer core, which is made up 2000-km thick liquid iron alloy layer. Despite being located 3000-km deep from the surface, it still affects our surface ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown doughnut-shaped region ...

This artist’s concept of the Earth’s core shows the inner core in red, the outer core in blue, and the donut in red. The donut region contains more light elements around the equator. Image via ...

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered, providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet's magnetic field. A ...

Earth’s wily magnetic field is keeping scientists on their toes. A team of scientists in Belgium and France have discovered a new type of magnetic wave—called a Magneto-Coriolis wave—that courses ...

A new study has revealed that water from the Earth's surface can penetrate deep into the planet, altering the composition of the outermost region of the metallic liquid core and creating a distinct, ...

According to Zhou, whose findings were recently published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, that one-second discrepancy in SKS wave travel time gives us an important and unprecedented ...

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The outer core is sandwiched between the mantle, the thick layer of rock underneath the Earth's crust, and the inner core, the planet's deepest interior layer. It's composed mainly of liquid iron that ...