I grew up with the idea that the Moon was a dry, airless rock where metal simply sat unchanged for billions of years. The ...
An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). (Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay) (CN) — ...
Melting Antarctic ice reveals rocky peaks that release iron, which drifts into the ocean and helps tiny plants absorb carbon ...
A new study in National Science Review have experimentally uncovered a suprising new state of matter within Earth's inner ...
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.