Some early life forms may have breathed oxygen well before it filled the atmosphere | MIT News
Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. It…
Polar weather on Jupiter and Saturn hints at the planets’ interior details | MIT News
Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The…
Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity | MIT News
Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after…
Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth” | MIT News
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which formed about 4.5 billion…
The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests | MIT News
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the…