The solid inner core at the center of the Earth, surrounded by the outer core, mantle and crust. Here’s why: While it is well known that a material must be at or below its freezing temperature to be ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists from the, University of Leeds, and University College London has uncovered ...

Ancient impacts brought gold and other precious metals to our planet, and a magma ocean produced with these impacts' heat trapped those metals and kept them safe. When you purchase through links on ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that ...