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

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A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

Lindsay Nikole takes us on a bold, hilarious, and chaotic journey through the history of our planet, packed with bizarre ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

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

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

This is what’s known as the "Purple Earth Hypothesis", an idea first proposed by Professor Shiladitya DasSarma, molecular ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

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MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...