New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Where the Earth’s core meets the mantle, there are two giant regions that have baffled geologists for fifty years. A new piece of the puzzle has now emerged with the discovery that they have ...

How do water and hydrogen interact in planetary evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a | Space ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Many geologists attribute the great variation in the temperature gradient to complex irregularities in the structure of the earth's crust. Some even maintain that the interior of the earth is cold ...

BEFORE the time of the Scotch geologist, James Hut- ton, some 6,000 years was believed to indicate the age of the earth ... introducing the notion of structure and mechanism, agitated and whirling ...

These bizarre denizens of Earth’s Ediacaran seas were also likely among the casualties of the impact that collided with the area known today as the Davenport Range in northern Australia. Despite ...

“As the galactic tide acts to decouple bodies from the scattered disk it creates a spiral structure in physical space that is ... Check us out on EarthSnap, a free app brought to you by Eric Ralls and ...