The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

At the heart of some of the oldest rocks in the Earth's crust, an international team has identified a chemical signature ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...