SPACE: What Does the Inside of Mars Look Like?
Like a bruised peach sliced apart to reveal an enormous yellow pit, Mars shares its inner mysteries in the first-ever map of an alien planet’s interior — released as part … Read more
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STUDY: Saturn’s Core Mighty Be Soupy (But Is It More Minestrone or Clam Chowder?)
Saturn’s rings aren’t just a beautiful adornment — scientists can use the feature to understand what’s happening deep inside the planet. By using the famous rings like a seismograph, scientists … Read more
Earth’s 200 Million Year Growth Spurt
Around 3 billion years ago, Earth’s crust ballooned during a massive growth spurt, geoscientists have found. At that time, just 1.5 billion years after Earth formed, the mantle — the … Read more
SCIENCE: The Paradox of Earth’s Inner Core
Earth’s Inner Core Shouldn’t Technically Exist Earth’s solid inner core formed about one billion years ago. Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how it happened. One day, about a … Read more