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How the early Earth evolved from a hellish to a habitable world

No terrestrial rocks that formed in the first 500 million years of Earth’s history have been discovered so far, making it difficult to study this period. This, however, has not deterred scientists from trying to understand this period because many events that shaped the present-day... click to read more

Yoshinori Miyazaki | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at California Institute of Technology

Jun Korenaga | Professor at Yale University

early Earth

habitability

Magma ocean

Hadean

Reading time 4 min

published on May 19, 2023

A neighborhood in space: finding the Moon’s age to understand Earth’s evolution

Understanding what made the Earth a habitable planet is an overarching goal of planetary sciences. Early events during the Earth's infancy set the initial conditions for its long-term evolution. The formation of its iron core and rocky mantle is one of those essential events. It... click to read more

Maxime Maurice | PhD student at German Aerospace Center (DLR), Rice University

evolution

early Earth

Moon

Magma ocean

Planets formation

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Feb 1, 2021