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.
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 thought.
Earth appears to be a chill blue planet, but deep down, it’s really a metalhead. Its outer core is mostly molten iron (and ...
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNEarth’s Core May Be Hiding a Secret Gas from the Big Bang!Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that helium, a gas long thought to be chemically inert, may actually bond with ...
The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...
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 ...
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Space.com on MSN'Primordial' helium from the birth of the solar system may be stuck in Earth's coreThe discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.
Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to ...
Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...
Instead of the estimated pressure at the earth’s inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure —about twice its density at sea level.
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Space.com on MSNMars may have a solid inner core just like EarthScientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...
Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.
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