Korenaga is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about how gold got to Earth:It’s a little surprising to connect to Jun Korenaga, not least ...

On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Australia holds the oldest continental crust on Earth, researchers have confirmed, hills some 4.4 billion years old ... solidified from lava there eons ago. (See also: "Oldest Rocks on Earth ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet named Theia slammed into the young Earth, causing a massive cataclysm that reshaped the very structure of the planet. This was a direct hit ...

had been used as evidence to support the theory that plate tectonics started nearly as soon as Earth had solid ground — roughly 4 billion years ago. "That's probably a flawed argument now ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Earth 4 billion years ago: a primitive ocean, orange skies, and... freshwater. This surprising vision changes our understanding of the emergence of life on our planet. A new study reveals that ...

Rodinia, in turn, is formed by the break-up of an even older supercontinent called Nuna about 1.35 billion years ago. Among the planets in the Solar System, Earth is unique for having plate tectonics.

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted as a "giant fertilizer bomb" on early Earth. This impact, releasing ...

From 3 billion years ago to roughly 600 million years ago—right at the dawn of complex life on the planet—the Earth’s oceans would’ve been significantly more green than they are today.