While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

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

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

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.

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

In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a team of scientists from the University of Tokyo, Peking University, and the University of Texas discovered that dark matter predominates in ...