Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Beneath the surface of our planet, at a depth of about 2,900 kilometres, lie enigmatic objects. These extraordinary formations are located at opposite ends of the Earth: one under the region of ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

What water, chemistry and temperature cycles fostered the chemical reactions that allowed life to emerge on our planet? Because life arose in the largely unknown surface conditions of Earth’s early ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

People are now tending to gravitate towards the idea that early Earth and Theia were made of almost exactly ... What's more, most of the ocean floor is basalt - it's the most common surface on all the ...

On the night of March 13 into the early hours of March 14, a total lunar eclipse will occur as the moon moves into the Earth's umbra, or shadow, turning the bright white lunar surface an eerie red.

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life ... during a time when Earth was very different. Oceans covered most of the planet.

he created mathematical models simulating early Earth conditions when our planet’s core was forming and an ocean of molten rock covered the planet’s surface. The team’s calculations showed ...