Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side. But how did they arrive at that number? Philosophers have debated the ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Changes in Earth's orbit have helped pace climatic change for millennia. Scientists are now trying to understand whether - and how - these changes remodeled the landscapes our ancient ancestors ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest ... said in a study recently published in Nature Communications. Meteorite impacts are said ...