There may be hidden layers to Earth’s core dictated by chemical composition. In A Nutshell Lab experiments suggest Earth’s ...

The Earth’s inner core, predominantly composed of iron with a minor admixture of nickel and light elements, is a critical component in understanding our planet’s magnetic field and thermal evolution.

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...