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Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

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These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in ...