The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

The surprise discovery that one of the lightest elements in the Universe can bind to iron under high pressure to form iron ...

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline ...

Earth appears to be a chill blue planet, but deep down, it’s really a metalhead. Its outer core is mostly molten iron (and ...

(To our knowledge, tiny black holes cannot form today.) But would these "primordial" black holes still exist, roughly 14 billion years after the big bang? Surprisingly, the answer depends on the ...

A great example is this recent reboot of the 1952 Miller-Urey “primordial soup” experiment which ended up with some fascinating results. At the heart of the Miller-Urey experiment was a ...

The findings dramatically push back the timeline for water's cosmic appearance to just 100-200 million years after the ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those ...