Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia
It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) say the new recordholder is located about 660 miles north in the country’s Pilbara region.
Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...
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Terrestrial Life May Not Have Started On EarthNobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.
New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...
Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...
Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt. But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...
This discovery suggests water could have shaped the first galaxies and planets, changing how we understand the universe’s ...
Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...
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The first water may have formed surprisingly soon after the big bangWater is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after ...
New analysis of ancient fossilized rocks known as stromatolites, preserved in southern Zimbabwe, suggests strong links to hydrothermal nutrient recycling, 'meaning that early life may in part have ...
A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all ...
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