The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side. But how did they arrive at that number? Philosophers have debated the ...

Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08701-z To better understand old planets, we must first learn how young ...