Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird acceleration of seismic waves. Experiments recreating the phenomenon in a ...

Learn more about how a team of scientists turned The Eras Tour into a global platform for science communication.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Haijiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. HOU Zengqian from Chinese Academy of Geological ...

The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated the ...

NASA’s InSight lander listened to Marsquakes for four years. The tremors revealed that Mars may have a solid inner core.

The data collected with the InSight lander revealed properties of the Martian core that could indicate why it is unfriendly to life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Mars’ heart is about the size of our moon, and almost twice as dense. Or so suggest the first observed rumblings from a Marsquake and meteorite impact to cross the Red Planet’s heart, researchers ...

The seismic activity generated by Taylor Swift's sold-out concerts in Dublin in July 2024 provided a unique opportunity for ...

In July 2024, Taylor Swift's sold-out concerts in Dublin became the subject of a scientific study known as the "#SwiftQuakeDublin" project.