A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories. Using geochemistry and computer simulations, researchers discovered the planet ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that ...

The solid inner core at the center of the Earth, surrounded by the outer core, mantle and crust. Here’s why: While it is well known that a material must be at or below its freezing temperature to be ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for billions of years, and this could challenge previously existing theories on how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our planet. The moon is weird. It's completely unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer ...