Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.

Recent studies suggest Earth’s continents formed billions of years earlier than previously thought. A study published in Nature Communications reveals evidence of active tectonic processes during the ...

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

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

The formation of Earth’s continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we ...

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a ...

Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

I/ATLAS can kill most of human life obliterate a continent and is it visible from Earth? The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may pose no direct threat to Earth, yet its size, speed, unusual behaviour and ...

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 ...

Researchers examined 3.7-billion-year-old anorthosites from the Murchison region of the state of Western Australia, the oldest rocks on the Australian continent and some of the oldest rocks on Earth, ...