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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...