In the Iberian Peninsula, the Iron Age – where smelted terrestrial iron began to replace bronze – didn't start until around ...

The side of the planet facing the star has an estimated temperature of around 2000 Kelvin, hot enough to melt iron, while the far ... Now researchers have made use of a new tool called EXPRES ...

Over time, the red planet’s innards differentiated into a core, a mantle, and an outer crust that’s an average of 40 miles thick. Its core is likely made of iron and nickel, like Earth’s ...

Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of mainly iron. Small in comparison to the gas planets found further from the Sun, they also rotate at a more sedate pace and ...

The discovery was made by astronomers in the Canary Islands observing a star system 1,600 light years away. One planet - called Kepler 107c - is thought to have an iron core that makes up 70% of ...

Astronomers have observed a distant planet where it probably rains iron. It sounds like a science fiction movie, but this is the nature of some of the extreme worlds we're now discovering.

Over time, Earth's interior—which is made mostly of silicate rocks and metals—differentiated into four layers. At the planet's heart lies the inner core, a solid sphere of iron and nickel that ...

The planet Mercury is mainly made up of iron. Mercury has no moons. The planet's close proximity to the Sun makes having moons impossible, as the star's strong gravitational pull would likely pull ...

Researchers said their finding suggested the 'cap and bracelet from the Treasure of Villena would currently be the first two ...