A peculiar property of the Earth's magnetic field could help us to work out how our planet was created 4.5 billion years ago, according to a new scientific assessment. There are several theories about ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

A new study shows that the so-called planetesimals that accreted together to form Earth must have been composed of dry, rocky materials. Billions of years ago, in the giant disk of dust, gas, and ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a young, hot star was born. The Sun formed from a cloud of gas and dust, and over time planetary bodies, including Earth and Mars, came to be. It’s unlikely that ...

Tiny historical events, like early collisions of rocks in the solar system, influenced Earth’s formation, tilt, and moon, ...

Water has made the Earth the planet that it is—a planet known for its blue oceans. Water shapes the land through erosion and is fundamental to Earth’s ability to support life. But we have a hard time ...

Tiny crystals of zircon could be geological evidence that the continents were born at meteor impact sites. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...