Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The Earth's granite crust harbours continental landmasses that have remained stable and above mean sea level for more than a billion years 1. The withdrawal of large volumes of granitic magma from ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

Imagine being able to replay the formation of the Solar System, not in theory or simulation, but in real time, around a ...

For the first time ever, scientists have captured the process of planets forming in their earliest stages. The ground-breaking photos were captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and NASA's James Webb ...