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

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

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

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Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...