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

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

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

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 ...

How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...