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 ...

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

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

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

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

In a rare glimpse into the earliest days of our planet, scientists have discovered remnants of the “proto Earth.” ...

MIT-led research uncovered chemical remnants of the proto Earth, offering a glimpse of the planet’s 4.5-billion-year-old ...

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

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing ...

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 ...

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