New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Why Does the Earth Have Continents? Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why.

A team of researchers from Curtin University in Australia found that Earth 's continents may have formed at the sites of meteorite impacts, which were much more common in the early history of the ...

Ancient Earth: Inferno Season 50 Episode 14 | 53m 45sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions| ADCC 252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on ...

Ancient Earth: Humans Season 50 Episode 15 | 53m 15sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions| ADCC How did Earth give rise to humans? See what made our species' existence possible.

An ancient landscape hidden under the East Antarctic ice sheet for at least 14 million years has been revealed with the help of satellite data and planes equipped with ice-penetrating radar.

Formed millions to billions of years ago, diamonds can shine light into the darkest and oldest parts of the Earth's mantle. The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil ...

The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon lie deep within the earth, according to a new model from Caltech researchers and collaborators.