Mysteries of Earth deepen with data from recent experiments that suggest temperatures in specific layers of interior TEMPE, Ariz. – Earth’s interior is not a benign world that only stores the geologic ...

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

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process that helps drive both the ...