Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...

Scientists say they’ve confirmed Earth’s inner core has been slowing down. Here’s what it could mean — and why the topic has been the subject of fierce debate.

The inner core was discovered in 1936, and its size (about 20% of Earth's radius) is one of the best-constrained properties of the deep Earth.

The rotation of Earth’s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests.. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The ...

The surface of Earth's inner core may be shape-shifting, new research suggests. The study, published Feb. 10 in the journal Nature, looked at earthquake waves that have skimmed the edge of the ...

Despite the inner core’s starring role in making life on Earth possible, scientists are still discovering fundamental facts about this ball of metal.

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of Earth’s enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing.

Earth’s core consists of a solid iron-nickel ball rotating within a layer of liquid metal. But that ball may not be as simple as it seems: new research suggests the inner core contains its own ...

Now, the inner core is rotating more slowly than before the shift. There's no risk of a cataclysmic disaster of dead birds falling from the sky or skin-blistering sunburns in seconds, like in the ...

Behind the expedition to the Earth's mantle 04:06. Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be ...

It is true that the outer core generates electrical currents that sustain the planet’s magnetic field, but Vidale says shifts in the Texas-size inner core are too minuscule to have an impact.