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An artist’s impression of planet formation: Close to the star, dust particles grow into planetesimals and Earth-like planets. Farther away, gas accretes on planetary cores to create Jupiter-like giants.
Posted inNews

Krypton Isotopes Provide New Clues to Planets’ Pasts

by Carolyn Wilke 4 May 20224 May 2022

To trace how crucial ingredients for life arrived at Earth, scientists track noble gases. Now, improved methods are drawing new clues from krypton, the most cryptic of noble gases.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Zircons and Plate Tectonics

by Vincent Salters 29 April 20223 May 2022

New data on ancient zircons points to a transition from stagnant lid to subduction style tectonics at 3.6 Ga ago.

Lightning over water
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Lightning Had Difficulty Forming in Early Earth’s Atmosphere

by Rebecca Dzombak 8 April 202225 April 2022

Lightning could have sparked the beginnings of life, but the primordial atmosphere might have made it more difficult for lightning to initiate.

A partially frozen planet sits on a black background.
Posted inFeatures

The Young Earth Under the Cool Sun

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 22 February 202223 February 2022

How did our planet avoid being frozen solid during the early days of our solar system?

An illustration showing volcanic activity and meteorite impacts on Earth during the Hadean, 4 billion years ago.
Posted inAGU News

How to Work in the Dark on Deep Time

by Heather Goss 22 February 202214 March 2022

Researchers who study the formation of Earth show how ingenuity can shed light on hidden moments of creation.

Artist’s rendering of a planet covered in magma
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Layered Zone Beneath Coral Sea Suggests Ancient Magma Ocean

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 4 February 202225 May 2022

Scientists studying South Pacific earthquakes suggest that an ultralow-velocity zone at the core-mantle boundary may be a remnant of a molten early Earth.

Illustration of the surface of early Earth with an orange sky (with a meteorite streaking through it), a green ocean, a large island landmass, an impact crater, and underwater volcanoes.
Posted inScience Updates

Rethinking the Search for the Origins of Life

by Dustin Trail, Jamie Elsila, Ulrich F. Müller, Timothy Lyons and Karyn L. Rogers 4 February 20224 May 2022

Early Earth conditions and the chemistry that led to life were inextricably interwoven. Earth scientists and prebiotic chemists are working together in new ways to understand how life first emerged.

Martian meteorite ALH84001 shown with a 1-centimeter cube for scale
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A New Explanation for Organics on a Mars Rock That Fell to Earth

by Derek Smith 26 January 20228 March 2022

Organic molecules on a Martian meteorite have fueled nearly 30 years of scientific debate. New evidence suggests they were formed by Martian processes, offering more support for a once habitable environment on the Red Planet.

An artist’s rendering of early Earth with a huge Moon looking over the alien landscape, including oceans of water
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How Much Did the Moon Heat Young Earth?

by Jure Japelj 11 January 202211 January 2022

Tidal heating may have raised the surface temperature of early Earth and triggered global volcanism, a new study says.

Artist’s rendering of Earth’s magnetic field, which connects the North Pole with the South Pole
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Oldest Pole Reversal Shows Early Earth Was Well Suited for Life

by Zack Savitsky 15 December 202115 December 2021

Australian rocks 3.25 billion years old preserved the oldest signs of Earth’s stable magnetic field and quickly moving crust, critical elements of life’s evolution.

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