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New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid lifelessness, did our planet become warm, hospitable, and life-sustaining? The answer ...

A researcher has concluded that life first emerged on Earth — despite an astronomically small probability of such an eventuality. While Imperial College London professor of systems biology Rober ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

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 ...

Drawing of Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced by the geodynamo ...

Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

The moon is weird. It's completely unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special ...