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.

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for billions of years, and this could challenge previously existing theories on how ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

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

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

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 ...

The Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago and has been continuously changing ever since. For instance, the Himalayas continue to ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...