"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.

It’s one of the most enduring ideas about the formation of our solar system: Earth collided with a Mars-sized object, Theia, ...

A study on the Earth's formation titled "Stochastic accretion of the Earth" has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Researchers from ETH Zurich have used a new modeling approach to ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

A peculiar property of the Earth's magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment. There are several theories about ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

Satellite image of Earth displayed the North American continent (top) and the South American continent (bottom). (Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — Like making a cake, dry materials came before ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

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

The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...