In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii. When you purchase through ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

South Africa’s exceptionally preserved ancient rocks hold key evidence for the rise ofatmospheric oxygen. Within them, researchers see the disappearance of sulfur mass-independent fractionation, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Proto-Earth evolved into the planet we know today after a cataclysmic collision with another ...