Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...