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.

Rethinking early Earth formation For decades, scientists have tried to identify when plate tectonics first began, marking the ...

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

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

New research links Earth's early interior dynamics within its first 100 million years to its current structure, challenging previous assumptions about rocky planet formation.

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

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