Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about the day-to-day of school ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.

The surface of the Earth's inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

Democratic lawmakers gathered outside the Social Security Administration headquarters to protest DOGE's potential probe of ...