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Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.
A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...
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Scientists unlock secrets of oldest rocks on Earth
Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...
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Rocks that make up Canada, Greenland, and Hawaii may be what’s left of the original Earth before a Mars-like asteroid hit billions of years ago
Armed with that information, the researchers went about gathering samples from the areas of land that are believed to be the ...
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With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the planet was ...
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