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New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...
A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...
Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...
The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...