Rocks from Canada, Greenland, and Hawai'i have less of the already rare isotope potassium-40 than those from the rest of the ...

(Nanowerk News) Ever since the earliest theoretical predictions 20 years ago, the chemical elements potassium and sodium were expected to be detectable in atmospheres of “hot Jupiters”, gaseous ...

Scientists have made an amazing discovery about Earth’s beginning. Researchers from MIT have found rare remnants of “proto ...

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

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...