Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by 800 million years.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs about how the planet’s first continents came into being. Researchers from ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

A discovery that rewrites early Earth history In a study published in Nature, scientists revealed that Earth’s first crust, called the “protocrust,” likely carried the same chemical traits ...

The discovery gives scientists a rare chance to study how Earth’s first crust might have formed directly from the mantle. That’s different from younger crust, which usually forms from the ...

By rethinking how MVEs were distributed in the early solar system, scientists can refine models of planetary formation and better understand why Earth evolved into a habitable world.