Meteorite 200x larger than the dinosaur killer reshaped the course of evolution on Earth
A meteorite 50 to 200 times more massive than the one linked to the dinosaurs struck Earth 3.26…
Australia’s North Pole Dome Crater is Earth’s Oldest and Only Known Archean Impact Structure
Zircon crystals and impact-altered minerals show that a massive asteroid slammed into what is now the Pilbara region…
Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth
Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…
Ancient impact with Theia may have brought water and life to Earth
Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the…
Earth’s Lithosphere was Already Segmented and Mobile 3.5 Billion Years Ago
By tracing magnetic signals preserved in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia, geoscientists have found the oldest direct evidence…