Scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that helium, a gas long thought to be chemically inert, may actually bond with ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

For decades, scientists have puzzled over traces of primordial helium—a rare isotope known as ³He—escaping from volcanic ...

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

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

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 ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

Lorena Moscardelli could not help but smile as she walked through aisles of high shelves at UT’s Core Research Center, each ...