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

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

Today, phosphorus erodes out of continental rocks into the oceans, but during the Archean, Earth was mostly a water world, ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...