"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

But the final stage of planet formation in our solar system may have taken much longer - up to a hundred million years or so. This was not only the last major addition of material to the Earth, but ...

Remarkably, it could one day lead to the formation of Earth's sixth ocean ... While we may not witness the final stages of ...

Most studies of this era of Earth's formation focus on the initial solidification of ... "We might say if we have some initial condition of the planet and we can model the very early stages of ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...

Wednesday March 26, TORONTO – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier ...

The distinctive signature of the continental crust matched the probable signature of material extracted from the mantle after core formation but before meteorites bombarded early Earth—solving ...

Remnants of the magma ocean my still exist today as LLVPs, or giant "blobs" in Earth's mantle. (Image credit: By Sanne.cottaar - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link) Phases of formation The process would ...