Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

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

and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth’s first continents. The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Earth's first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, likely had chemical features similar to today's continental crust, suggesting that the distinctive ...

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

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...