2.75 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Rewrite the Story of Earth’s Early Life
A study of ancient stromatolites reveals that ammonium reservoirs in early Earth's oceans, likely influenced by volcanic ...
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
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'Primordial' helium from the birth of the solar system may be stuck in Earth's core
The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...
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World's oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history
Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found ...
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Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)
"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...
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Small and large planets have significantly different upbringings
Studying the orbits of thousands of exoplanets shows that large planets tend to have elliptical orbits, while smaller planets ...
Deep Inside Earth, Two Giant Mantle Structures Rewrite Geological History
Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...
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Groundbreaking Discovery Reveals How Early Life Began on Earth
Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen. As a building block of proteins and DNA, nitrogen is essential to all living ...
Exoplanet's Winds 'Challenge Our Understanding of How Weather Works'
"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.