Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

The deficit of this isotope is now thought to mean that some of the oldest rocks on Earth are actually remnants of our planet ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Scientists uncover remnants of proto-Earth buried beneath continents, providing rare isotopic evidence that rewrites how our ...

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

Ancient humans living across Southeast Asian islands over 40,000 years ago were building sturdy, seafaring boats with plant ...

National Reptile Awareness Day 2025 highlights how reptiles shape ecosystems; they show how nature balances under stress.