Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them?
Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...
Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline
Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...
How did eastern North America form?
When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...
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Earth's first crust already had chemical traits of modern continents
Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...
Earth’s First Crust Was Continental – Long Before Plate Tectonics Began
New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...
Consciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Say—And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid Sample
Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...
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Harvard Scientists to Help Lead NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...
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Were Earth’s First Continents Born in Cosmic Chaos? New Study Sheds Light on Early Crust Formation
Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...
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Study reveals chemical secret of Earth’s 4.5 billion years crust
Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a chemical composition identical to that of the modern average ...
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Earth's Crust Is Dripping Under Midwest US, Scientists Discover
Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...