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With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...
Armed with that information, the researchers went about gathering samples from the areas of land that are believed to be the ...
This photo provided by researcher Jonathan O'Neil shows an outcropping of about 4.16 billion year old rocks at the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada, with a knife to indicate scale. ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...
Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.
In February 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts bagged a moon rock later found to contain a shard blasted from the early Earth. A technician at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston examines "Big Bertha," ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...
In findings published in science journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a sample collected during the 1971 Apollo 14 lunar mission was found to contain traces of minerals with a chemical ...
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In the summer of 2024, a robotic mission landed for the first time on the far side of the Moon. The Chinese Chang’e-6 lander planted a flag, dug up more than four pounds of rock and soil, and brought ...