Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

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

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

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

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.

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth ... formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the ...

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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began.