Until now, the scientific community debated the starting point of liquid mantle solidification: did it begin deep within the ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions of early Earth, the element niobium would become siderophilic, or attracted to metal, sinking ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents.

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls ... the rocky envelopment that surrounds the iron core of rocky planets. The structure and dynamics ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Scientists have discovered a mineral that will help study the Earth’s core and cosmic bodies, TASS reports Photo: ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially ... that surrounds the iron core of rocky planets. The structure and dynamics ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...