Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a theory that our planet has a distinct ball of iron within its metallic core.

Earth's crust ranges from 5 to 70 kilometers in thickness and serves as the planet's outermost layer. This thin shell represents less than one percent of Earth's total mass, yet it's the only layer we ...

Earth's inner layers have just got a bit more complicated, with scientists discovering a whole new inner core within the center of the planet. Research released on February 21 in the journal Nature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new UN report says that the Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the ...

They believe this is a new layer of Earth’s interior found globally. The discovery could help determine how tectonic plates move. Scientists have found Hell on Earth. Well, more accurately: Hell in ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

In one of the great environmental success stories of our time, scientists say that a 35-year-old agreement has resulted in the steady and promising recovery of the Earth's ozone layer, a critical ...

This layer makes up only 1% of the entire volume of the Earth, though it makes up the entire surface (the continents and the ocean floor). The thinner parts are the oceanic crust, which underlies the ...

Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a theory that our planet has a distinct ball of iron within its metallic core.

In one of the great environmental success stories of our time, scientists say that a 35-year-old agreement has resulted in the steady and promising recovery of the Earth's ozone layer, a critical ...