University of Southern California scientists have proven that the Earth's inner core is backtracking—slowing down—in relation to the planet's surface, as shown in new research published in Nature.

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Currently, the rotation between the inner and outer cores is becoming less distinct. When researchers say “reverse,” they mean the inner core is rotating slightly slower than the outer core, Brown ...

A single rotation of our planet takes 24 hours ... which matches observations by astronomers and satellites. Earth’s inner core has been slowing down for 14 years. It comes just weeks after ...

Seismic waves travel through the Earth's inner core faster between the north and ... which are themselves anisotropic -- parallel with Earth's rotation axis.

The Earth globe, featuring a cube in place of the solid inner core. The cube big diagonal is oriented along the Earth's polar axis. It is a schematic illustration that Earth's inner core material ...

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny ...

Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth’s inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that plays a crucial role in shaping the conditions we experience on the surface ...

A new study challenges the long-held assumption that Earth's inner core is hard, like a solid metal sphere. Instead, our planet's heart is likely much gooier than previously thought, "kind of like ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same ... Mercury takes 59 Earth days to complete one rotation on its axis and 88 Earth days to complete one revolution around the Sun.