To recover a meteorite record for millions of years, the researchers headed to the Atacama Desert

A new paper paints an even more intricate picture of Earth's mantle as a geochemically diverse mosaic

Cornell geoscientists have discovered the first direct evidence that material from deep within Earth’s mantle transition zone can percolate to the surface to form volcanoes

Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth’s first life forms

The chemical composition of the Earth's core is still poorly understood, despite more than 60 years of research

Review discusses how stable elements came from the lives and deaths of stars

Researchers have always differed on estimates of when the inner core actually formed

A team of scientists has determined the number of asteroid impacts on the Moon and Earth increased by two to three times starting around 290 million years ago

Inosine could be a potential route to the first RNA and the origin of life on Earth

Rice University scientists use Hawaiian hot spot to study movement of Earth's poles