About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. 'There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims ...

The extinction of molecular life on Earth may occur as soon as 10,000 years from now thanks to depletion of Earth's oxygen over a billion years. When did Earth become oxygen rich? O2 accumulation in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently ...