Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Scientists think that by 4.3 billion years ago, Earth may have developed conditions suitable to support life. The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Although Earth itself cohered into a planet around 4.5 billion years ago, most estimates suggest it took at least another 800 million years before the earliest lifeforms developed. But while ...

The moon is probably even older than assumed and was carved out of the earth only 65 million years ... They have determined an age of 4.5 billion years for the moon. As other analyses have ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...