It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth's core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a ...

Researchers investigate the effects of oxygen content on the melting of mantle rocks and the formation of early Earth magma It is widely accepted that the early Earth largely consisted of molten magma ...

Earth's surface environment hosts large reservoirs of hydrogen (H, mainly in the form of water, H 2 O), nitrogen (in atmospheric N 2) and carbon (mainly in carbonate rocks). H, N and C are sometimes ...