Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Trending / Space & Astronomy / The Hidden Chemistry of Planet Formation. MAR 28, 2025 3:30 PM PDT. ... (4,940 degrees Fahrenheit/2,727 degrees Celsius). For context, Earth’s atmosphere experiences 101 ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...