X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Rodinia was a supercontinent that included nearly all of Earth’s landmasses for about 450 million years during the Proterozoic Eon, according to Britannica. It formed around 1.2 billion years ago from ...

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

Earth's early days The researchers built a new model of Earth's formation that considered both geochemical data and seismic data — the two main methods of peering into Earth's deep history.

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

Four and a half billion years ago, Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the ...

Extreme complexity in formation of rare earth mineral vital for tech industry Date: May 22, 2024 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: Researchers have unveiled that myriad, intricate factors ...

An interdisciplinary international research team has recently discovered that a massive anomaly deep within the Earth’s interior may be a remnant of the collision about 4.5 billion years ago ...

Now, Krishnamurthy and his team have potentially uncovered another missing piece of Earth’s biological puzzle: the method behind the formation of the very first cells.

However, the moon was once much closer to Earth. The moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago, likely in the aftermath of a giant collision between a Mars-size rock and the newborn Earth. The moon ...

Earth's early days The researchers built a new model of Earth's formation that considered both geochemical data and seismic data — the two main methods of peering into Earth's deep history.