Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

Researchers are interested in analyzing these rare remnants from "proto-Earth" because it would give them an idea about the ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Researchers who compared levels of three potassium isotopes in surface rocks and primordial rocks found a deficit of one ...

Deep rock samples from Greenland, Canada, Hawaii reveal remnants of planet’s 4.5-billion-year-old precursor, offering new ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Scientists at MIT have uncovered compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals. Chemical fossils ...

Let’s take a journey into the depths of the Earth, down through the crust and mantle nearly to the core. We’ll use seismic waves to show the way, since they echo through the planet following an ...

Water has made the Earth the planet that it is—a planet known for its blue oceans. Water shapes the land through erosion and is fundamental to Earth's ability to support life. But we have a hard time ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...