Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...

In 2008, Canadian researchers led by McGill PhD student Jonathan O'Neil said they'd found the world's oldest rocks, formed 4.3 billion years ago in what is now northwestern Quebec. Such rocks would ...

Most of our knowledge about the Solar System’s formation and evolution comes from the study of extraterrestrial rock samples called chondritic meteorites. These rocks, which are fragments of asteroids ...

The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve been studying the area for two centuries and mapped the region in great ...

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