The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

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Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

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The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.