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

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

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

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

A colossal iron ore deposit discovered in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has left geologists stunned — not just for its ...

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 ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

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 ...