Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the planet’s ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the planet’s ...

Scientists have found the origin of WATER on Earth - and say it didn't come from asteroids after all. READ MORE: Scientists baffled after discovering a unique asteroid-comet hybrid; ...

“Earth may have had more than enough ingredients to form water from the beginning,” said planetary scientist Patrick Shober, who was not involved in the research.

Water Origins on Earth Ironically, researchers turned to a meteorite containing hydrogen to prove that such former bodies did not provide the H2 ingredient of water’s H2O recipe. They examined a rare ...

The origin of hydrogen, and by extension water, on Earth has been highly debated, with many believing that the necessary hydrogen was delivered by asteroids from outer space during Earth’s first ...