When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, scientists say.

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world.' Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library via Getty Images How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

Earth should have lost its water long before life ever had a chance to appear. Bathed in a young Sun’s fierce radiation and wrapped in a global magma ocean, the planet’s surface looked more like a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

IMAGE: A new study by CU-Boulder researchers indicates a thick organic haze shrouding Earth several billion years ago was similar to the one now hovering over Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. University ...

Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...