Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

The James Webb space telescope has captured data that could help us better understand how Earth formed billions of years ago. According to the new data, James Webb has detected water vapor in ...

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...

The story of how the Moon came to be has always carried a touch of mystery. Picture the young Solar System as a restless place where new worlds grew from swirling gas, dust, and rock. In that chaotic ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

No one is exactly sure how the tectonic plates formed, but one theory posits that the were shattered from within by the ...