Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Scientists say they have found geochemical traces of Earth’s ancient self hidden far below our feet, suggesting that parts of the planet that existed before the Moon-forming collision 4.5 billion ...

Earth has seen many different and strange forms of life over hundreds of millions of years. Scientists examine fossils to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

Earth's magnetic field may have been similarly as strong 3.7 billion years ago as it is today, pushing the earliest date for this planetary protective bubble back 200 million years. "When we're ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud ...

Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

New calculations suggest that the Earth formed twice as fast as previously thought. The measurements, by two different research teams in Germany, the US and France, indicate that the Earth's core was ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle. When you purchase ...