Together with collaborators across six universities, he created mathematical models simulating early Earth conditions when Earth's core was forming and an ocean of molten rock covered the planet's ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. Researchers discover Earth's first crust, formed 4.5 ...

At some early point in Earth's history, a collection of increasingly complex chemicals performed a new trick. They somehow transformed themselves, with help from a jolt of energy, into an ...

NEMES LASZLO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Earth held a deep ocean of magma beneath its surface in its early history, new research finds, potentially explaining odd anomalies seen in the ...

Once the atmosphere cleared and surface conditions stabilized ... ancient meteorites shaped life on Earth. They plan to search for other chemical signs of early life, looking at how microbes ...

(CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and ...