The Utah Office of Energy Development is poised to ink a contract to tap into a study for geothermal resources for ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Scientists have officially resolved a long-standing mystery about the Moon’s internal structure, confirming that its inner ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density ...

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Through computer simulations and seismic data, He and his team discovered that the iron alloys from the Earth's inner core that contain these light elements were behaving similarly to superionic ice, ...

We conducted high-pressure experiments on hexagonal close packed iron (hcp-Fe) in MgO, NaCl, and Ne pressure-transmitting media and found general agreement among the experimental data at 300K that ...

Earth's diameter is about 7,900 miles. The planet's internal structure comprises four layers: a rocky crust on the outside, then a rocky mantle, an outer core made of magma and a solid inner core.