An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

Researchers examined 3.7-billion-year-old anorthosites from the Murchison region of the state of Western Australia, the oldest rocks on the Australian continent and some of the oldest rocks on Earth, ...

The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and ...

A team of Yale University–led researchers studying volcanic rocks from Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains has uncovered new ...

The Tremembé Formation itself is the only fossil-rich unit in Brazil from the Late Oligocene that preserves mammal remains.

A decade ago, John Hamel didn't like the wines that his family winery was selling. He wanted to emulate the great European ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the ...

Elon Musk addressed Harvard researcher Avi Loeb’s theory on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, confirming its nickel-rich composition results from natural impacts, not artificial or extraterrestrial origin.