{"id":245593,"date":"2026-10-18T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/earths-core-is-leaking-all-sorts-of-materials-that-have-been-trapped-since-our-planets-birth"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T06:08:04","slug":"earths-core-is-leaking-all-sorts-of-materials-that-have-been-trapped-since-our-planets-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/earths-core-is-leaking-all-sorts-of-materials-that-have-been-trapped-since-our-planets-birth","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s Core Is Leaking All Sorts of Materials That Have Been Trapped Since Our Planet\u2019s Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-core-is-leaking-all-sorts-of-materials-that-have-been-trapped-since-our-planets-birth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System\u2019s violently chaotic afterbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 4.5 billion years of hectic cosmo-geological time, it has settled down a bit, allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/humans\">humans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-hibernating-lemurs-could-help-scientists-studying-human-ageing-now-they-re-waking-up\">lemurs<\/a>, and others to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>A vision of this hellish ancient reality remains, (hopefully) never to be glimpsed by human eyes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/all-those-nuclear-tests-decades-ago-have-revealed-something-new-about-our-planets-core\">our molten metallic core<\/a>, blazing about as hotly as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth%27s_inner_core\">surface of the Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our early Earth was a heavy metal album cover: a molten ball covered in a global lava ocean, spewing lethal gases while being pelted by the flaming space-rocks of our Solar System\u2019s violently chaotic afterbirth. Over the next 4.5 billion years of hectic cosmo-geological time, it has settled down a bit, allowing humans, lemurs, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}