For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Scientists have discovered an anomaly related to the increase in the level of beryllium-10 in ocean sediments at the bottom ...

Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology (TUD Dresden) and the Australian National ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

Learn how time scales for objects thousands versus millions of years old could be better synchronized.

There are three naturally occurring Carbon isotopes on earth, C 12, C 13 and C 14, the last of which decays radioactively to nitrogen with a half life of about 6,000 years. Why does this matter?

Tests revealed the samples were ordinary chondrites, a common type of stony meteorite that accounts for 86% of space rocks found on Earth. "This is the island’s first-ever meteorite discovery ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Because it’s so highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth, but instead is always bound up in some kind of mineral or molecular compound. Above all, it’s crucial for ...