This chemical signature or fingerprint doesn't show up in studies of other large impacts on Earth, or in any geological ...

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

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...

Geologists in Massachusetts made a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly alter what we know about the Earth's ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

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

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks in a parking lot and a dozen strangers gathered around. “That’s pretty,” one ...

The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, ...

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

The flight will look for undiscovered mineral areas and hopefully advance geological science.