New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Elements like hafnium prefer to be mixed in with rock than with metal. Hafnium decays over about 10 million years to form tungsten. The first time the Earth cooled and separated into rock and metal ...

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

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

The microorganisms that live near such plumes have led some scientists to suggest them as the birthplaces of Earth’s first life forms. Organic molecules may also have formed in certain types of clay ...

It is formed only under extreme temperatures and ... The model shows how Earth's first half billion years were unbelievably turbulent, with our planet "being pummeled by an enormous flux of ...

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

This advanced climate simulation, first developed ... in allowing ice caps to form. Dr. Andrew Meredith, the study’s lead ...

The Hadean eon represents the time from which Earth first formed. The subsequent Archean eon (approximately 3,500 million years ago) is known as the age of bacteria and archaea. The Proterozoic ...