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While Mapping a Camping Trip, Man Spots Previously Unknown 390-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Crater in Quebec

Learn how a man discovered a 390-million-year-old meteorite impact crater in Quebec, Canada while planning for a camping trip ...

3.1-Billion-Year-Old Rocks Rewrite the History of Earth’s Early Tectonics

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...
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How do we know Earth is round?

Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat despite scientists explaining how we know the Earth is ...

Over 2,000 years ago Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek scholar, measured the Earth's circumference with just a stick, sunlight and simple math

Ancient Greek scholar Eratosthenes calculated Earth's circumference using sunlight and geometry. He observed shadows in Syene ...

One of the world's oldest orbicular granites is in India: The 2.56-billion-year-old Pichhore rock is baffling scientists with its mysterious spherical structures

A new study published in the journal Geosystems and Geoenvironment has identified the 2.56-billion-year-old Pichhore ...

On the hunt for Earth's first complex life

How life started on our own planet may not seem as interesting as finding evidence of life on Mars or the icy moons Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes on Earth remains as ...