Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

The solid inner core at the center of the Earth, surrounded by the outer core, mantle and crust. Here’s why: While it is well known that a material must be at or below its freezing temperature to be ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System.

Researchers have long struggled to explain how Earth’s solid inner core formed, cooled, and crystallized without undergoing ...