Learn about the chemical signature that may be the first evidence to come from proto Earth, the unruly first phrase of our ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the planet.

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

China has weaponized rare earth minerals. The U.S. is finally fighting back. For investors, one company stands out as a potential winner.

The planet has been so drastically transformed since in that time, no unmixed trace of the proto-Earth was thought to have ...