By analyzing their decay, scientists have pinpointed key events in Earth’s formation. Studies reveal that the dust-to-protoplanet phase spanned tens of millions of years, while the final stages ...

An exciting new study reveals that life on Earth might have already flourished within a few hundred million years of the planet’s formation ... All life forms, no matter how simple or complex ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...

Currently, Earth has five distinct oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic, and Arctic. The formation of a sixth ocean could bring significant changes to the planet's geography. Discovery of ...