Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada. Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried.

First, there was the discovery of a terrifying black hole pointing right at us, then there was a huge hole found in the sun and a missing continent found after going missing for 375 years. Now ...

Most agree the rock is at least 3.75 billion years old — but that wouldn’t make it Earth’s oldest. A close up picture of the 4.16 billion-year-old rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt ...

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UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A groundbreaking study by the University of Göttingen in Germany, published in the journal Nature, suggests that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious ...