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 ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Researchers have long struggled to explain how Earth’s solid inner core formed, cooled, and crystallized without undergoing ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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

The discovery stems from the unearthing of well-preserved fossil leaves in the Laisong Formation of Nagaland, dating back ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...