Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...
The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...
Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...
Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...
Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.
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 ...