The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did ...

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

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

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

About 4.5 billion years ago, the moon formed. Violently. A Mars-size object collided with Earth, turning its surface into ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

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 ...