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As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.

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The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.

The North Pole Dome has long been studied as a site that might show the earliest signs of life forming on the planet. The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little ...

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Antarctica is Earth's only uninhabited continent, home to the South Pole, and subject to a delicate balance of cooperation between key players. So what is ...

By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

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In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...