When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

A team of researchers has produced the strongest experimental evidence yet that Earth’s iron core holds enormous quantities ...

Scientists suggest that huge reserves of hydrogen inside the Earth may have been key in the formation of water.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Earth’s core has often been described as just a giant ball of iron and nickel. Now, a new study argues that it is also a ...

The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

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 ...

How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.