Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have traveled 25 billion ...

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature.

Learn about the continent-sized rocks hidden deep within Earth's mantle that have influenced the magnetic field for millions ...

Ancient rocks show Earth’s magnetic field followed deep heat patterns inside the planet for hundreds of millions of years.

The blobs lie at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 1,802 miles beneath Africa and the Pacific.

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

Exploring Earth's deep interior is a far bigger challenge than exploring the solar system. While we have travelled 25 billion ...