5 million years ago. This southeastern Oregon location provides one of the most startling examples of how quickly Earth's magnetic field can flip. A series of overlapping Miocene-age basaltic lava ...

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists did not expect. Around 2010, a broad patch of fluid in the outer core ...

Something strange happened in 2010 far below the surface of Earth. The direction of the flowing molten core reversed ...

Seismic waves passing through the Earth have revealed that the inner core of our planet is now rotating out-of-sync with the layers above it. Update: As reported below, research from January 2023 ...

Deep beneath the Pacific near the equator, Earth’s outer core now flows east instead of west. Dynamics deeper within our planet’s core may help explain the change and what to expect in the near future ...

Imagine Earth’s inner core — the dense center of our planet — as a heavy, metal ballerina. This iron-rich dancer is capable of pirouetting at ever-changing speeds. That core may be on the cusp of a ...

Deep earth may be slowing its roll. Earth’s solid iron inner core appears to be spinning at a slower rate than the planet, according to a new study — but no worries, scientists believe it’s been ...

One of the most interesting discoveries about Earth in the past few decades concerns the Earth’s magnetic poles. Paleomagnetic records show that the poles have flipped places 183 times in the last 83 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Swarm constellation satellites and ground data reveal a startling 2010 reversal in molten core flow beneath the Pacific and ...