Earth's earliest atmosphere may have done more than surround the planet - it may have helped make life possible. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that ...
Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...
What Scientists Found in 1.4 Billion-Year-Old Air Is Reshaping Our Understanding of Early Earth ...
Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules linked to life. These sulfur-rich compounds, including certain amino acids, ...
South Africa’s exceptionally preserved ancient rocks hold key evidence for the rise ofatmospheric oxygen. Within them, researchers see the disappearance of sulfur mass-independent fractionation, ...
Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...