Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

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This hypothesis, proposed by researchers from Monash University in Australia, was published in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters. The study indicates that around 466 million years ago ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

A new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters might finally have the answer: a dramatic game of cosmic hide-and-seek deep within our planet. To understand this mystery, we need to ...

Imagery of fractured terrain on Venus, Mars, and Jupiter’s moon Europa pinpoints environments influenced by water.

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

A new study led by Adrien Saurety and Razvan Caracas from the Paris Institute of Earth Physics sheds light on the significant role of vaporization during the accretion of ...

a UCLA professor of planetary science who is leading the NEO Surveyor mission for NASA. “We still don’t know everything that’s in our own backyard,” Mainzer said. And if we do need to ...