The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting the young sun. The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag to form ...

The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator. There are currently 7 giant plates sliding across the Earth's surface, and a handful of smaller ones.

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

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 study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters ... encircling Antarctica and spanning around 7 million square miles ...

The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 billion years ... well preserved in Earth’s oldest rocks. Some hints come from the oldest zircons, highly durable minerals that formed in magma.

The crust of the earth is thin - a bit like the skin of an apple.The crust is made from solid rock in the form of tectonic plates. Tectonic plates float on the semi-solid mantle, which moves very ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.