Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...

From fossilized footprints to enormous skeletons, the remains of sauropods tell a story of power and adaptation. Learn how these ancient giants grew to towering heights and record-breaking weights, ...

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Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive ...

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

"This is maybe the first direct evidence that we've preserved the proto-Earth materials." Scientists have identified what may be the first direct evidence of material left over from the "proto-Earth," ...