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

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research led the study. They examined iron isotopes in 15 Earth ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

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

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

To our best of our understanding, the Moon formed from Earth following a colossal impact. A Mars-sized world we nicknamed ...