When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

Scientists suggest that huge reserves of hydrogen inside the Earth may have been key in the formation of water.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

A team of researchers has produced the strongest experimental evidence yet that Earth’s iron core holds enormous quantities ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Old crystals found in Western Australia are drawing fresh attention from geologists studying how the planet first took shape.

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

How can the metal content of stars influence the formation of Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

A new scientific revelation reveals that deep in the Earth’s core lies a good amount of hydrogen as well as a large amount of iron. While the iron in the core has always been recognized as dominant, ...