About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given rise to eukaryotic life.

Boffins have been puzzled for decades about two strange blots under our planet, but now some new research could finally be ...

As humans alter the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what may unfold from climate change. To this end, massive ice structures like glaciers ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...