Earth's layers FAQs answered by an expert We asked Rebecca Fischer, assistant professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University a few commonly asked questions about Earth's layers.

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Earth’s core is pretty dynamic. Its spin speeds up and slows down ...

a seismologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra, in an email. The reason this layer had not been previously ...

Researchers report on ionospheric sporadic E layer (Es) activity during the Mother's ... Huixin Liu of Kyushu University's Faculty of Science, who led the study. "The sporadic E layer hasn't ...

In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers from Kyushu University report on the activity of sporadic E layers—about 90–120 km above sea level—during the 2024 Mother's Day ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based ... of dead marine life into the Earth's interior, changing the "redox" state of the magma. The Earth's layers (main) and the sun (inset).