Speaking with purple rock and feathery clouds in a sunless sky behind him, Korenaga explains the origins of gold — and Earth.‘My work focuses on estimating early Earth’s history. In the last ...

Early human ancestors sometimes left hints of daily life in their bones ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and Earth.com.

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted as a "giant fertilizer bomb" on early Earth. This impact, releasing ...

ABSTRACT: With the aim to contribute to the search for the source of placer gold, the Les Saras sector, located in the south-western part of the Republic of the Congo in the Mayombe chain, has been ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth—a key process in the origin of life.

Our data confirmed that material from the core, including gold and other precious metals, is leaking into the Earth's mantle above," Messling said. Approximately 99% of the Earth’s gold is burie ...

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ABSTRACT: The study area encompasses the Odienné and Touba sectors in northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. It is located in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Transition Zone (APTZ), the major structure of which, ...

Could this discovery change our understanding of early Earth’s climate and history? [asteroid impact] [ancient flood] [mega-flood] [Earth history] [cosmic disaster] [space rock] [NASA research ...

The new discovery centers on a star called HD 181327, located about 155 light-years away, in the constellation Telescopium. At just 23 million years old, HD 181327 is a cosmic infant compared with ...

"It's possible that a similar type of competition between microbes contributed to the delay in oxygen production on the early Earth," Klatt explained. To demonstrate this hypothesis, the team ...