Unlike the Earth, though, the moon’s surface did not cool to form tectonic plates. Instead, it has a thick crust made up almost entirely of a light-colored mineral called feldspar. Feldspar is the ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist?

Snowball Earth theory gets a boost from Colorado rock findings Tava sandstone formation provides key evidence for global ice ...

How did Earth atmosphere become oxygen ... present in small amounts in the air, form part of the other gases in it, too. As early as two billion years ago, the researchers report in a paper published ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...