By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

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

Theia and Earth did not combine to form Moon, a new study suggests. The Moon might be a part of only Earth, a sibling 384,400 ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR ... advancing space exploration while adhering to our core belief that access to space will improve life on Earth. It is because of our dedication to planetary ...

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 ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that helium, a gas long thought to be chemically inert, may actually bond with iron under extreme conditions. This discovery suggests that Earth’s core ...

These elements don't usually like to hang out together, but lunar samples show that they ... The heavy core of Theia sank deep into Earth, enlarging our planet's core. The two bodies' mantles ...

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