Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and ...

Some classic sci-fi novels get the luxury of excellent big-screen adaptations (like Denis Villeneuve’s work on Dune); others are so complex that they are almost impossible to adapt. Sometimes, ...

Scientists accidentally discovered that the Earth's inner core might not be how we thought it was - and it could affect the length of a day.

Not only is Earth’s inner core spinning and growing, but it’s also changing shape, according to new research. Our planet’s [… ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

Scientists have found new evidence that the Earth’s inner core may be changing over time. A recent study by researchers at ...

India’s first privately manufactured Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), being built by a consortium of HAL and L&T, will ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

Our planet, Earth, is structurally composed of a series of concentric internal spherical layers that are divided into: crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core and inner core. Every ...

Delhi, in Seismic Zone IV, faces a major earthquake threat from the Himalayas. Weak buildings, high-risk zones, and rising ...

The seismicity, or the frequency of earthquakes, around Delhi might be associated with the Delhi-Haridwar Ridge, a “major ...

First, a few basics. The Earth’s inner core, which is smaller than the moon, is solid iron and nickel. It’s surrounded by a layer of molten metal known as the outer core, followed by the Earth’s ...