Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed to the formation of Earth. These remnants, believed to be slivers of ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time: ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Our Earth as we know it had a “proto-Earth” phase that didn’t survive long before it was pummeled by an asteroid. Researchers who compared levels of ...

The C/N and 36 Ar/N ratios of the BSE change strongly depending on the differentiation depth and redox conditions in the proto-Earth. Only the differentiation at deep magma ocean conditions could ...

MIT scientists discover 4.5-billion-year-old proto-Earth remnants in ancient rocks, revealing our planet's mysterious ...