By Rhett Ayers Butler [( Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as ...

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 ...

SACABA, Bolivia -- Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost ...

A lot of the rocks we have on Earth are pretty old, but none of them were around when our planet was first formed. The Earth itself is around 4.5 billion years old, and the oldest rocks we’ve ever ...

Scientists have confirmed that a tiny zircon crystal is the oldest piece of the Earth's crust, at 4.4 billion years old. The crystal was discovered on a sheep ranch in Perth, Australia in 2001, but ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes ...

A study has documented just how much damage ship anchoring causes to the sea floor. As Frontiers detailed, 36 underwater anchoring sites around the Antarctic were recorded between 2022 and 2023 by ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an ...

Overview and history of investigation of early earth rocks / Brian Windley -- The distribution of Paleoarchean crust / Kent Condie -- The formation of the earth and moon / Stuart Ross Taylor -- Early ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...