Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

From the ongoing series of remarkable discoveries on Earth… NASA recently identified a peculiar white, glowing formation deep ...

Scientists have a new theory of how our planet formed.. As well as answering the mystery of how our planet got here, the theory would explain the Earth’s perculiar chemical composition.

But new research published by our team in Science Advances suggests that many of these elements, called volatiles, may have existed in the Earth from the beginning, while it formed into a planet.

In a new study released in Nature this week, researchers say Earth formed within just 3 million years. That’s notably faster than previous estimates that place the timeline as high as 100 ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust.

Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline Date: April 2, 2025 Source: Macquarie University Summary: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the ...