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The popular image of the early Earth as a magma-drenched ball of despair has taken yet another blow. New research affirms that our planet’s first 500 million years were at times surprisingly similar ...

Did life have hellish origins? Carbon with an organic-like signature has been discovered sealed within a crystal that formed during an interval of Earth’s history named after Hades, the underworld of ...

A new analysis of ancient grains of crystal embedded in rock from the Australian outback suggests Earth had dry land and fresh water some 4 billion years ago — a time when scientists had thought the ...