Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

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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.

Scientists involved in planetary formation studies, meteorites, and early solar system investigations have been wondering ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began. A study ...

This is roughly what the formation of the Earth in our solar system might have looked like. The birth of two planets (light brown dots) in a protoplanetary disc around the young star WISPIT 2 ...