An ultramassive white dwarf half Earth's size may hold a rare oxygen-neon core

Astronomers have found evidence that one of the most massive white dwarfs known has an oxygen-neon core instead of the more ...
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Earth’s core may be hiding a strange form of hydrogen that exists nowhere else on the planet

A new study suggests that Earth’s inner core may contain a bizarre form of hydrogen that behaves unlike anything found at the ...

New models shed light on how an exotic phase of hydrogen in Earth's core may behave

While Earth's core consists mostly of iron, its density implies that lighter elements are also mixed in. Because hydrogen is ...
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Earth's inner core could be full of extreme hydrogen unlike anything on the surface

(Rost-9D/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll – or perhaps a rotting, ...
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Hidden chemistry of Earth’s core revealed by how it froze

Cartoon of the Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced by the geodynamo extend into space and interact with the solar wind. The iron-rich core at ...
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Earth's core may contain as much as 45 oceans' worth of hydrogen, scientists find

LONDON — 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 ...
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Scientists Discovered What’s Really At the Center of the Earth

Researchers in England believe carbon played a key role in freezing Earth’s core. As it contributes to the cooling and freezing of the molten outer core, the solid, iron-rich center of Earth continues ...
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Atomic Simulations Show How Earth's Core Solidified

What is the speed and timing of the Earth’s inner core cooling? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the composition ...