Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments -- like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks -- have always been done on Earth. Now, for the ...

A barrage of rocks hitting the solar system 3.9 billion years ago could have dramatically reshaped Earth’s geology and atmosphere. But some of the evidence for this proposed bombardment might be ...

Thanks to a new calibration of the versatile argon-argon dating technique, geochronologists have established a more precise date for the dinosaur die-off at the end of the Cretaceous period: 65.95 ...

According to a research paper published in the scientific journal Nature, all living objects absorb carbon from the surrounding environment. This assimilated carbon also comprises a certain amount of ...

The analysis dated the site's streaky gray rocks, part of an outcrop called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt, to 4.16 billion ...

As dating sites and apps like Tinder and eharmony continue to grow in popularity, many of the companies behind them are finding it difficult to compete in the saturated market and to attract investors ...

Birger Rasmussen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Among the most significant of those returns is the valuable information the lunar landings provided about our moon and, in turn, ...

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