Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...
About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...
The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...
Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago. Knowing how old Earth is can be more difficult to confirm because Earth's age is not only based on the age of rocks, but also the isotopic estimates of what ...
A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.