Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

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Last year, geologists dated the crater in Western Australia at 3.47 billion years old, which was disputed by other experts.

"While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain." ...

That makes North Pole Dome the oldest known impact structure on Earth, and the only recognised impact crater from the Archean, the period between 4 and 2.5 billion years ago. This is a story about a ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but other researchers dispute the proposed age ...

Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode all of life's functions. The work is an ...

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. For decades, NASA’s exploration of the solar system has been dominated by ...

Rare earth elements (REE) are 17 minerals that quietly underpin much of the modern global economy. Found in everything from electric vehicle motors and wind turbines to fighter jets and semiconductor ...

Pigeons and other birds can do it. So can sea turtles and spiny lobsters, moths and mole rats, gray whales and big brown bats. Many members of the animal kingdom can detect the subtle undulations of ...