"We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of millions of years of Earth formation," says ... to support life from around 4.3 billion years ago. But our planet is subject to ...

The moon is much older than we thought, according to a new analysis conducted by researchers from the United States, France, and Germany. It is possible that Earth's companion formed as early as 4 ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending ... when the sediments were formed. The Earth was already ...

The Moon’s formation has been traced to 4.53 billion years ago, nearly as old as Earth itself, according to research by Francis Nimmo and team, published in Nature. 'A secret beneath 30 US ...

Two huge masses deep within Earth may have remained ... back at least half a billion years and possibly even to the formation of the planet more than 4 billion years ago, says Deuss.

The meteorite was identified as billions of years ... formed in stars before the Sun and Earth came into existence. These grains, including micro-diamonds and silicon carbide, date back over 4.6 ...

When American astronauts go back to the moon in the next few years, they'll be checking out two enormous canyons on the south pole, which researchers say were carved by an asteroid nearly four billion ...