11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... is the main reason humans populate the planet the way we do today. The swirling convective currents of molten iron in the Earth’s outer core throws out a protective shield, that protects life from the stream of charged...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
.... After developing the right mix of constituents, including the addition of ‘green rust’ or to use its formal name, iron hydroxide, which was abundant on early Earth, the team tested their hypothesis by heating the solution to the...
22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
... of Earth's molybdenum originated in the outer solar system. Because molybdenum loves to bond with other metals, especially iron, most of the molybdenum found on Earth is located in our molten core. "The molybdenum which is accessible today in the...
12 June 2019
Mysterious mass found under Moon's South Pole
... by more than half a mile, is most likely a remnant of what created the crater in the first place; the iron-nickel core of an asteroid that dispersed into the Moon’s upper mantle (the layer between the crust...
09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
.... Although Sgr A* is described as dormant, observations of antiquated X-ray light (affectionately known as light echos) coming from excited iron atoms suggest that the usual quiescent SBH has undergone bursts of activity in the past few hundred...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... the surface, olivine reacts rapidly with the atmosphere and within weeks becomes coated with the iron oxide minerals magnetite and hematite, due to the lack of water on the planet. Hematite in turn affects the...
