Earth probably formed in a hotter, drier part of the solar system than previously thought, ... Diagram showing proposed formation locations for Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

According to the popular view of the Earth's formation, about one billion years ago, our planet's molten liquid inner core spontaneously began to crystallise, growing rapidly to the extent that it ...

Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are ...

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.

Ph.D. student Isaac Onyett, the corresponding author of the study, highlighted the role of dust particles in Earth's formation, saying, "Once a planet reaches a certain size, ...