In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

The story of Earth is the story of change. The 4.5 billion years of this planet’s history saw it transformed from a hellish world of magma oceans and poisonous air to a temperate, habitable home ...

Microscopic evidence reveals how cooling magma chambers were recharged by fresh volcanic injections 2.5 billion years ago to ...