The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, collided, and broken apart over time. But what did Earth look like in its ...

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

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

Editor's Note: This story was updated on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 8:45 p.m. EDT to correct the headline and lede; Earth's continents and freshwater likely emerged by 4 billion years ago, or 600 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These blobs are actually the remains of an ancient planet that crashed into Earth during the same impact that created the moon. The findings are described in a study published in the scientific ...

Ancient Earth: Inferno. Season 50 Episode 14 | 53m 45s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. How did life bounce back after a cataclysmic extinction wiped out some 90% of all species?

NARRATOR: "Ancient Earth: Humans." ♪ ♪ Right now, on "NOVA." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: Over the course of Earth's four-and-a-half-billion-year history, countless species have come and ...

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.