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A powerful 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Greece on Wednesday, July 23, between two holiday hotspots. The huge tremor hit ...
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...
If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.
Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.
Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.
The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), under India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), has identified reserves of rare earths in coastal and inland regions of India, ...
The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...
NASA reports that asteroid 2025 ME92 will soon pass Earth. It measures about 95 feet wide and moves at 11,831 miles per hour.
A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...
Ancient rocks could shed light on Earth's earliest days Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas soon after the solar system existed.
In 79 A.D., Roman author Pliny the Elder marveled at how dust could turn to stone. "Who, indeed," he wrote in Naturalis ...