While many science books would have you believe the Earth's lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it's actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just ...

Scientists have finally confirmed that Earth is wrapped in a subtle but global electric field, a planetary-scale energy ...

The illustration shows a cutaway revealing the interior of early Earth with a hot, melted layer above the boundary between the core and mantle. Scientists think some material from the core leaked into ...

Far beneath us, large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) and ULVZs under Africa and the Pacific at Earth's core-mantle boundary may be relics of a core-leaking infancy.