Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

Life on our planet has been shaped over an immense span of time. About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells, and eventually living organisms, ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

The graphic below shows how the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates causes volcanoes to be formed, and what triggers a volcanic eruption.

The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little evidence of meteorite strikes in the first half of its existence. Our planet was mostly a water world during the ...

It struck Earth approximately 600 million years ago during the Ediacaran Period. During this time, land was largely barren and lifeless although shallow seas hosted an array of strange, mysterious ...

At the same time, the surface of the newly formed planet was under constant bombardment ... the question within the next four years. Driving Earth’s tectonic plate movement and powering its ...

located 130 light-years from Earth. The detection of CO 2 offers clues as to how distant planets form, with the observations providing strong evidence that these four giant planets formed in much ...

A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...