A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer ... within the bottom magma ocean would have created a unique chemical environment, fostering unexpected reactions between ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Like the Earth, the moon started off with a thick layer of molten rock on its surface ... As measurement techniques improve, planetary scientists will also be able to measure new chemical signatures ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

The experiments run by Newman and colleagues were actually extensions of an experiment that humans have been unwittingly running with the Earth for nearly a century. Humans have been depleting the ...

Specifically, we investigated the degree of melting of Earth’s early mantle – and the behaviour of chemical elements during this process. Our results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known ...