Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our ... the solid metal inner core is surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. The inner core is made mostly of iron and ...

SCIENTISTS have found a humongous planet-sized solid metal ball ... new layer inside of the Earth. The study, led by Thanh-Son Pham and Hrvoje Tkalčić, claims the solid metal ball is 400 miles ...

Hrvoje Tkalčić receives funding from the Australian Research Council. About 2,890 kilometres beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet’s core. Scientists like me use ...

Inside the belly of planet Earth, a giant solid ball of metal is surrounded by a swooshing layer of liquid iron and nickel, ...

Researchers from The Australian National University have penned a new study that has been published in Nature Communications and details the discovery of a new core inside of Earth's inner core.

ball of solid iron-nickel alloy. Previously, many researchers believed that Earth had four distinct layers — the crust, the mantle, a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. But in the past ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

or just left inside indefinitely – both of which can lead to complications. Now, however, scientists have devised a method of breaking them down in place using liquid metal. Led by Asst.