The dance of the continents has been reshaping Earth for billions of years, creating the landscapes we walk on today.

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

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Determining Earth's bulk composition is difficult because so little of the planet is directly accessible. As a result, most estimates derive from a comparison of Earth rocks with the planet's probable ...

You’ve probably seen the analogy of the Earth’s timeline compared to a one day, 24-hour period. If not, take a look at the video below to get a quick understanding. According to this analogy, Earth ...

Earth has a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes Earth's axis. Both are essential for life to develop on our planet. Scientists have now been able to show that water ...

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The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...