The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those plates even come from?

The James Webb space telescope has captured data that could help us better understand how Earth formed billions of years ago. According to the new data, James Webb has detected water vapor in ...

A study on the Earth's formation titled "Stochastic accretion of the Earth" has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Researchers from ETH Zurich have used a new modeling approach to ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

A peculiar property of the Earth's magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment. There are several theories about ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity provinces and ultra-low-velocity zones as vital clues to Earth’s formative ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Deep below the Earth’s crust, along the mantle-core boundary, are dense geological blob-like anomalies ...

Scientists have discovered a meteorite older than Earth, offering the earliest clues to how the Solar System formed and how ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...