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

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

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 ...

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 team of NASA scientists and their colleagues have found evidence from meteorites that Mars and Earth had a similar origin, but then the two planets evolved quite differently. Based on their analyses ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a ...

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

Researchers have unveiled that myriad, intricate factors influence the genesis and chemistry of bastnasite and rare earth carbonates, which are critically needed for today's tech industry and its ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...