New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ... is leader of the Timescales of Mineral Systems at Curtin University. Jonas Kaempf is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the ...

This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site ... study co-lead and a professor at Curtin University’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in a statement ...

Earth itself formed only a billion ... can we add this new one to our list, but it’s the oldest one we’ve ever found. Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater ... a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth," Chris Kirkland of Curtin University in Australia, who led the discovery ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered ... so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," Professor Johnson said. Researchers discovered the crater thanks to 'shatter ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.