New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed (4,600 million years ago) when it was struck by a large protoplanet, sometimes dubbed Theia, roughly ...

Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished together by gravity. That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun.

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Scientists believe that when the Earth was formed, a day was around only six hours long. This has gradually increased to the 24 hours we know today, but it’s still increasing! Unfortunately ...