Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...