The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

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 ...

Science has made great progress in telling the story of how Earth was formed more than four and a half billion years ago. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and plate tectonics shape the landscape. But ...

At the heart of some of the oldest rocks in the Earth's crust, an international team has identified a chemical signature ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of life ...