Molecule's 'fingerprint' may help explain formation of life on Earth
The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...
What If the Asteroid Belt Had Formed a Super-Earth? Scientists Reveal the Shocking Impact
Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...
Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...
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Small charges in water spray can trigger the formation of key biochemicals
We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process ...
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Earth’s Oldest Meteorite Crater Dating Back 3.47 Billion Years Found in Australia’s outback
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
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Earth's oldest impact crater was just found in Australia—exactly where geologists hoped it would be
We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...