Kolkata: Zircon a little more than 4 billion years old has previously been found in Kerala’s Wayanad (in 2016) and from the river Baitarani in Odisha (in 2018). The Earth’s oldest zircon discovery, ...

The first half a billion years or so of Earth's existence was not so hellish after all, according to research on desert rocks in outback Australia. Geologists Professor Bruce Watson of Rensselaer ...

Researchers from Presidency University, Hiroshima University and the National Centre for Earth Science Studies have found rock samples from Chitrial, around 100 km north of Hyderabad in Telangana, ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...