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Therefore, a research team led by space scientist Philip Heck of the Field Museum of Natural History will analyze zircon crystals brought back by Apollo 17 to determine at least how many years ago ...

The zircon crystals we found in river sand and rocks from Finland have signatures that point towards them being much older than anything ever found in Scandinavia, while matching the age of ...

Zircon crystals hidden within lunar dust samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 have revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed.

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

What their lights illuminated would come to be called “The Cave of Crystals,” and it’s as deadly as it is beautiful. 11m crystals galore As the brothers shone the first light into the cavern ...

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Zircon is the "time-lords" of the earth. They are indestructible and take up radioactive materials, so they're used to track events in deep time that would otherwise be lost to us.

Crystals from Apollo mission find moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought New UChicago, Field Museum study finds lunar crystals formed at least 4.46 billion years ago ...

Zircon crystals hidden within lunar dust samples collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 have revealed that the moon is 40 million years older than previously believed.