Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling ... and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends ...
Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of ...
The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...
Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...
These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe ...