Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago. Some of these ...

Currently, the oldest dinosaur fossils discovered are around 230 million years old. Scientists believe more excavation is needed to uncover the true origins of dinosaurs on Earth. However ...

Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are preserved—find evidence of terrestrial microbial life that they estimate is about 3 ...

"As a society we already believe that we are the oldest race on Earth, and from my point of view this research goes some way towards proving that," said Wall. The study is one of three major ...

This made them among the oldest manufactured ... came to be formed in the first place. The Rowton iron meteorite had to pass through the asteroid belt to reach Earth Meteorites go through a ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth ... and the craters left behind might have been the place that life on Earth began. The scientists involved were able to identify ...

April 19 (UPI) --NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from ... landing will take place at 6:20 a.m. local time, it will occur on Pettit's 70th birthday. He is the oldest active member ...

The team is part of Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice, an EU-funded research ... French Concordia Station — one of the most extreme places on Earth. By analyzing the ice cores extracted from the ...