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 ...

Compared with the universe as a whole, Earth is quite young at 4.5 billion years old. Scientists arrived at this number because of evidence from radiometric dating, which measures the rate of ...

The youngest mare are thought to be only 1.1 billion years old, which means volcanoes were still erupting on the moon two billion years after the earliest accepted evidence for life on Earth! Another ...

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how unconformities form. Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the world.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Bacteria are the most diverse organisms on Earth, with a number of species that's difficult to quantify. They're also ...

Why do people believe the flat Earth theory and is it even worth debating? Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space ...

The planet Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Earth spins at 1000 miles per hour. It takes 24 hours to complete a full rotation. It's daytime on the side of the Earth that faces the Sun and ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people ...