How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

The formation of the Earth may have looked more like a fast, inevitable landslide than like a slow series of occasional cataclysms, as scientists have long theorized, according to findings published ...

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago. Knowing how old Earth is can be more difficult to confirm because Earth's age is not only based on the age of rocks, but also the isotopic estimates of what ...

Violent collisions between the growing Earth and other objects in the solar system generated significant amounts of iron vapor, according to a new study by LLNL scientist Richard Kraus and colleagues.

Tiger Iron formed when in the sea dissolved iron reacted with free oxygen produced by the first photosynthetic life forms on Earth. For the first 2 billion years of Earth's history, there was barely ...