Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

Earth appears to be a chill blue planet, but deep down, it’s really a metalhead. Its outer core is mostly molten iron (and ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

Experts hope the minerals they find via this method will “power green, renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.” ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

The surprise discovery that one of the lightest elements in the Universe can bind to iron under high pressure to form iron ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

The two giant blobs — one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its outer core ... boundary between two crystals, known as a ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that helium, a gas long thought to be chemically inert, may actually bond with ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

Further analysis confirmed helium’s incorporation into iron’s crystal lattice ... there could be huge amounts of helium in the Earth’s core. This could challenge long-standing ideas about ...