Planetary scientists search for ancient impacts to learn about Earth’s early formation. So far, nobody has found an impact crater older than the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure, also in ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle.

Researchers may have finally cracked the age-old mystery about the origins of Earth's water, and the answer might be related ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

A newly published model of early Earth, out July 30 in Nature, may have stumbled upon the answer. The model shows how Earth's first half billion years were unbelievably turbulent, with our planet ...

A meteorite that plummeted into the roof and living room of a house in McDonough, Georgia, has now been found to be 20 ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.

Thanks to one of the slowest-ticking clocks in the universe, scientists have determined the moon is about 40 million years older than previously thought. That means the Earth was a young 100 million ...