When you find a strange looking rock in the desert, it’s likely worth having some experts take a proper look at it, just like in this case.

For most of my life I believed, and most everybody believes, that the Earth is billions of years old. A couple months ago I inquired the Minnesota Geological Survey as to how it knows the rocks ...

A 4.45 billion-year-old zircon grain, extracted from a Martian ... The team studied meteorites from a space rock called NWA7034, or ‘Black Beauty’. Unlike most Martian meteorites, which ...

It is thought the rock was fired off the Mars surface following an impact there and thrown to Earth, sometime between 5 million and 10 million years ago. The scientists focused on the zircon that ...