Without the Earth's core, would we be just another nameless planet?

You can check your rate without impacting your credit score in minutes. Thank you Upstart for sponsoring this video. Deep under the crust and mantle of our Earth lies its core.

From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.

Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock believed to transmit heat from the core-mantle boundary to the Earth’s surface, far from the edges of tectonic plates.

However, the theory has a flaw: Earth's core was completely liquid before Earth's inner core crystallized—around 1 billion years ago.