Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that precious metals like gold are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, ultimately ...

Chinese authorities are continuing to drag out approval of Western companies' requests for rare earth magnets, after China ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

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Using advanced measurement techniques, they measured for multiple types of helium and argon and found signatures to suggest these gases had traveled up from Earth's mantle—the hot, dense layer ...

A large team of astronomers and astrophysicists affiliated with several institutions in China has discovered a binary star system, where one of the stars is a millisecond pulsar and the other is ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. ... The volume of the crystal formed was larger than that of a crystal of pure iron at the same pressure, the team found.

Given the high ratio of 3 He/ 4 He, which was found in volcanic rocks, has long been believed by researchers to be deep in the Earth’s mantle are primary materials containing helium-3 However, ...

Primordial helium from the beginning of the solar system may be stuck inside Earth's solid core, new research suggests. The findings could have implications for a long-standing debate about how ...