Scientists reveal that Antarctica’s ocean current formed slowly and needed winds, ice, and shifting continents to shape Earth’s climate.

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 ...

Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The inner solar system may have formed differently from how we have long thought it must have. For decades, researchers have thought that the rocky planets formed from a single disc of dust and debris ...