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4w ago

Pilbara Crater Dated to About 3.02 Billion Years Would Be Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Site

Direct uranium–lead dating of impact‑altered zircon plus hydrothermal apatite yields matching ~3.02 billion‑year ages that could place the Pilbara site in the Archean, reshaping views of early crustal hydrothermal systems.

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4w ago

Lucy Reveals Peanut-Shaped Asteroid That Wobbles on Two Axes

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last mo.

Scientists Find First Garnet Grains in Martian Meteorite

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last mo.

Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

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last mo.

Lunar Meteorite Reveals a 3.486‑Billion‑Year‑Old, Extremely High‑Temperature Impact

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last mo.

High‑Altitude Pyrenees Cave Shows Repeated Prehistoric Use and Possible Early Copper Processing

3 ARTICLES

last mo.

Miner Proposes Magnetic Rocks as Cause of Bermuda Triangle Compass Failures

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2mo ago

Decade‑Long Study Finds Steady Natural 'White' Hydrogen Flowing From Deep Canadian Mine

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2mo ago

First Nuclear-Explosion Clathrate Found in Trinity Test Glass

7 ARTICLES

2mo ago

Pennsylvania Visitor Finds 3.09-Carat Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds Park

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2mo ago

Researchers Identify New Clathrate Crystal in Trinity Test Glass

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2mo ago

Scientists Confirm New Clathrate Crystal Forged in 1945 Trinity Blast

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2mo ago

Myanmar Unveils 11,000-Carat Ruby Found Near Mogok

8 ARTICLES

2mo ago

High-Altitude Pyrenees Cave Points to Millennia of Prehistoric Copper Work

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2mo ago

USGS Identifies Vast Appalachian Lithium That Could Slash U.S. Imports

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3mo ago

Brazil’s Rare-Earth Push Enters Courtroom as Congress Rewrites the Rulebook

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3mo ago

Mars’ Dark Patch Has Grown Since 1976, New Orbiter Images Show

Mineralogy

Pilbara Crater Dated to About 3.02 Billion Years Would Be Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Site

Lucy Reveals Peanut-Shaped Asteroid That Wobbles on Two Axes

Scientists Find First Garnet Grains in Martian Meteorite

Lucy Flyby Shows Peanut‑Shaped Asteroid Is Water‑Altered Fragment of Ancient Collision

Lunar Meteorite Reveals a 3.486‑Billion‑Year‑Old, Extremely High‑Temperature Impact

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Giant Moon Impact

Study Links Stonehenge’s Altar Stone to Northeast Scotland via Dogger Bank

Sahara Meteorite Points to Moon‑Size Lost Protoplanet

High‑Altitude Pyrenees Cave Shows Repeated Prehistoric Use and Possible Early Copper Processing

Miner Proposes Magnetic Rocks as Cause of Bermuda Triangle Compass Failures

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Decade‑Long Study Finds Steady Natural 'White' Hydrogen Flowing From Deep Canadian Mine

First Nuclear-Explosion Clathrate Found in Trinity Test Glass

Pennsylvania Visitor Finds 3.09-Carat Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds Park

Researchers Identify New Clathrate Crystal in Trinity Test Glass

Scientists Confirm New Clathrate Crystal Forged in 1945 Trinity Blast

Myanmar Unveils 11,000-Carat Ruby Found Near Mogok

High-Altitude Pyrenees Cave Points to Millennia of Prehistoric Copper Work

USGS Identifies Vast Appalachian Lithium That Could Slash U.S. Imports

Brazil’s Rare-Earth Push Enters Courtroom as Congress Rewrites the Rulebook

Mars’ Dark Patch Has Grown Since 1976, New Orbiter Images Show

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