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

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

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

A colossal iron ore deposit discovered in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has left geologists stunned — not just for its ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

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

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...

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