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Oldest Rock On Earth Confirmed To Be Over 4 Billion Years Old
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 characterized the planet at the time.
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Perseverance Rover Studies Ancient Martian Rocks at Fallbreen and Forlandet Quadrangle
NASA's Perseverance rover reached new ground on June 7, 2025, exploring ancient Martian terrain at Fallbreen and moving into the Forlandet quadrangle near Jezero Crater. This region may contain Mars' oldest rocks, offering key insights into the planet’s early geology. The mission also honors Earth's own exploration history by naming Martian sites...
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NASA’s Perseverance Explores Mars' Oldest Rocks in Krokodillen Region
NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached Krokodillen, a 73-acre plateau near Jezero Crater's rim believed to host some of Mars’ oldest rocks. Preliminary data shows signs of clays, carbonates, and olivine minerals, suggesting ancient water activity. Currently examining a site named Copper Cove, the rover is using a new sampling strategy that allow...
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NASA Perseverance Rover Discovers Ancient Rock Sample on Mars' Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample from Mars' Jezero Crater. The rock, named “Silver Mountain,” is believed to be one of the oldest in the solar system, possibly dating back to the Noachian period, over 4 billion years ago. This discovery provides new insights into Mars’ geological history and past environmental co...
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Moon Rocks Brought From the Far Side Confirm Ancient Volcanic Activity
Researchers analysing lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have uncovered evidence of ancient volcanic activity on the Moon’s far side. The mission, which returned nearly two kilograms of lunar soil in June, landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the Moon’s oldest craters. Studies published in Science and Nature revealed volc...
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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Garbage Clogs Bengaluru's Largest And Oldest Green Lung
The Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru is the city's oldest and largest green lung - a place that replenishes the crowded IT hub with fresh air. Close to the garden's main gate is an ancient rock topped by a tower built by the King Kempe Gowda centuries ago, to mark what he expected to be the limit of Bengaluru.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Archaeologists Just Found The Oldest Drawing - A 70,000-Year-Old Hashtag
Archaeologists who excavated a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing. It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock flake.
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As Amit Shah Meets Uddhav Thackeray, Sena Lines Up Some Uneasy Questions
BJP boss Amit Shah started work on his mission to reach out to NDA allies, starting from Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena in Mumbai this evening to mollify its oldest and most difficult ally that calls his party its "biggest political enemy". The Shiv Sena, which sees the BJP's efforts to consolidate its foothold in Mumbai and beyond as a threat, has p...
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Donald Trump Hails 'Very Strong' Ties With Thailand
Donald Trump welcomed Thai junta leader chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha to the White House on Monday, trying to turn the page after coups rocked one of America's oldest alliances.
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Oldest Signs Of Life On Earth May Be In 3.95 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
The Saglek Block rocks of northern Labrador have been submerged beneath water, sucked into Earth's interior, twisted, squeezed and torn by tectonic forces, wrenched upward, weathered by wind and waves, and otherwise subjected to every imaginable form of battering a piece of stone can endure in the course of 3.95 billion years.
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Madhya Pradesh Houses World's Oldest Rock Art: Experts
The petroglyph rock art at Daraki-Chattan (hillock) near Bhanpura in the district is the "world's oldest rock art" and is almost 2 to 5 lakh years' old, according to experts.
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Around 50,000-Year-Old Axe Found In Australia, Scientists Say World's Oldest
A rock flake found in Australia is believed to be from the world's oldest known axe and likely dates from just after humans arrived in the country around 50,000 years ago, scientists said today.
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Oldest Rock On Earth Confirmed To Be Over 4 Billion Years Old
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 characterized the planet at the time.
-
Perseverance Rover Studies Ancient Martian Rocks at Fallbreen and Forlandet Quadrangle
NASA's Perseverance rover reached new ground on June 7, 2025, exploring ancient Martian terrain at Fallbreen and moving into the Forlandet quadrangle near Jezero Crater. This region may contain Mars' oldest rocks, offering key insights into the planet’s early geology. The mission also honors Earth's own exploration history by naming Martian sites...
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NASA’s Perseverance Explores Mars' Oldest Rocks in Krokodillen Region
NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached Krokodillen, a 73-acre plateau near Jezero Crater's rim believed to host some of Mars’ oldest rocks. Preliminary data shows signs of clays, carbonates, and olivine minerals, suggesting ancient water activity. Currently examining a site named Copper Cove, the rover is using a new sampling strategy that allow...
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NASA Perseverance Rover Discovers Ancient Rock Sample on Mars' Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample from Mars' Jezero Crater. The rock, named “Silver Mountain,” is believed to be one of the oldest in the solar system, possibly dating back to the Noachian period, over 4 billion years ago. This discovery provides new insights into Mars’ geological history and past environmental co...
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Moon Rocks Brought From the Far Side Confirm Ancient Volcanic Activity
Researchers analysing lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have uncovered evidence of ancient volcanic activity on the Moon’s far side. The mission, which returned nearly two kilograms of lunar soil in June, landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the Moon’s oldest craters. Studies published in Science and Nature revealed volc...
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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Garbage Clogs Bengaluru's Largest And Oldest Green Lung
The Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru is the city's oldest and largest green lung - a place that replenishes the crowded IT hub with fresh air. Close to the garden's main gate is an ancient rock topped by a tower built by the King Kempe Gowda centuries ago, to mark what he expected to be the limit of Bengaluru.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Archaeologists Just Found The Oldest Drawing - A 70,000-Year-Old Hashtag
Archaeologists who excavated a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing. It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock flake.
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As Amit Shah Meets Uddhav Thackeray, Sena Lines Up Some Uneasy Questions
BJP boss Amit Shah started work on his mission to reach out to NDA allies, starting from Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena in Mumbai this evening to mollify its oldest and most difficult ally that calls his party its "biggest political enemy". The Shiv Sena, which sees the BJP's efforts to consolidate its foothold in Mumbai and beyond as a threat, has p...
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Donald Trump Hails 'Very Strong' Ties With Thailand
Donald Trump welcomed Thai junta leader chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha to the White House on Monday, trying to turn the page after coups rocked one of America's oldest alliances.
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Oldest Signs Of Life On Earth May Be In 3.95 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
The Saglek Block rocks of northern Labrador have been submerged beneath water, sucked into Earth's interior, twisted, squeezed and torn by tectonic forces, wrenched upward, weathered by wind and waves, and otherwise subjected to every imaginable form of battering a piece of stone can endure in the course of 3.95 billion years.
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Madhya Pradesh Houses World's Oldest Rock Art: Experts
The petroglyph rock art at Daraki-Chattan (hillock) near Bhanpura in the district is the "world's oldest rock art" and is almost 2 to 5 lakh years' old, according to experts.
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Around 50,000-Year-Old Axe Found In Australia, Scientists Say World's Oldest
A rock flake found in Australia is believed to be from the world's oldest known axe and likely dates from just after humans arrived in the country around 50,000 years ago, scientists said today.
