The team studied the mineral zircon from two of the oldest pieces of intact crust—dating 4.0 to 2.7 billion years old—and discovered that ancient plate tectonics, or how the continents move ...

Professor Qiuli Li, a leading researcher from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, highlighted the study’s importance, calling it the first geochronological analysis of Chang’e-6 samples ...

The Moon’s formation has been traced to 4.53 billion years ago, nearly as old as Earth itself, according to research by Francis Nimmo and team, published in Nature. 'A secret beneath 30 US ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

That means NASA's targeted exploration zone around the pole mostly on the moon's near side won't be buried under debris, keeping older rocks from 4 billion plus years ago exposed for collection by ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.