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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An artist's illustration shows a molten proto-Earth. Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and ...

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

Could we really be on the verge of discovering life on other planets? Maybe. And the case is growing stronger by the day. It’s not just a hunch—there’s hard data to back up the claim that we may not ...

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 forces us to rethink the starting conditions for our planet’s water system." Liquid water flowed across the surface of the asteroid that birthed the near-Earth object (NEO) Ryugu much later than ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

"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," ...