An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth’s core formed under more oxidizing condition’s than previously proposed.

In other words, more supercooling would be needed to start forming the inner core if these elements were abundant in that part of the Earth. On the other hand, they found that carbon helped to ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

For years, scientists thought Jupiter’s strange interior was the result of a massive collision in its youth. But new research suggests that the planet’s diffuse, “fuzzy” core wasn’t born from a ...