A recent groundbreaking scientific expedition has pierced deeper into the Earth’s mantle than ever before, offering ...

The inner core of our planet has started spinning slower and slower, new research has revealed Compared to the speed of the Earth's surface ... hope to further drill down into why the core ...

In the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, geologists have burrowed 1268 metres below the seafloor – the deepest hole drilled into Earth’s ... Upon analysing the drill core sample, the ...

To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core yet and recovered serpentinized peridotite ...

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Decades worth of seismic data confirms the rotation of Earth's inner core is moving slower than the planet's surface. The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago ...

Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, its center may be more malleable than expected and has changed shape in recent years.

As well as offering new insights into mantle composition, the drill core gives us other glimpses into Earth's deep geology and the conditions that could have been involved in the origins of life.

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth's atmosphere ... The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 ...