Researchers may have finally cracked the age-old mystery about the origins of Earth's water, and the answer might be related to space.

Researchers used atomic-scale computer simulations to discover the importance of carbon in forming a solid planetary core.

A researcher has concluded that life first emerged on Earth — despite an astronomically small probability of such an ...

Geologists and planetary scientists are rethinking how Earth's continents may have formed after discovering that the leading theory may not be possible after all.

About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia catastrophically struck Earth, throwing out a ring of material that eventually accreted into the Moon.

Jerusalem Post / Science How did the Earth's crust, tectonic plates form? - study This information could help answer a fundamental question about our planet and could even help scientists ...

Earth is a wet planet that formed in a dry part of the solar system. How our planet’s water arrived may be a story of big, bullying planets and ice-filled asteroids.

Astronomers and geologists have several techniques for dating Earth, and, therefore, the age of the solar system. From the radiometric dating of rocks, which measures the known decay rates of ...

Home > Science How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form? A long time ago in an arm of the galaxy about three kiloparsecs away, our Solar System began to take shape.

We now know the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, while the planet's core is about two years younger than that thanks to the time-dilating effects of gravity. But how did we figure that out?

How Did Hawaii Form? The volcanic island chain was born when the Pacific tectonic plate drifted over a hotspot in Earth’s mantle.