A high-energy photonic jet (white and blue) blasts through a collapsar with a black hole at its center. The red space around ...
Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...
the Earth inherited a great deal of iron-56 (that is atoms with 26 protons and 30 neutrons). Much smaller amounts of iron-54 ...
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.
The 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.