Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

W e know that Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, but trying to piece together the very earliest stages of its evolution is easier said than done. Luckily, science has had some help from a ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Researchers are still not sure how old the moon is. However, there is now growing evidence that it is almost as old as our ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

Methuselah, nearly 4,855 years old, might be surpassed by Alerce Milenario ... that could not be restored within our lifetimes if emitted, than any other region on Earth. Whichever tree, whether ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

The meteorite likely struck Earth at more than 22,370 miles per hour ... The age of the impact is “statistically indistinguishable” from old rock beds in South Africa, according to the ...

"Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," study co-author Tim Johnson, a professor in the school of ...