How do scientists know the Earth is billions of years old? The proof may surprise you

Scientists did not arrive at Earth’s age from one clue. Several very different measurements keep pointing toward the same ...
Forbes

Earth’s First Tectonic Plates Formed Slowly Over A Billion Years, New Study Suggests

Tectonic map of the Earth. The first continental crust on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago. Likely the first fragments formed by partial melting and re-crystallization of the primordial ...

Earth and Mars Were Formed in Fundamentally Different Ways, Study Finds

Earth and Mars may have formed through different mixtures of planetary building processes, despite developing side by side.

“The Earth is 6,000 years old.” How science debunks this religious view

The 6,000-year claim faces evidence from several places that have little to do with one another. What those independent ...
Phys.org

Earth's oldest impact crater was just found in Australia—exactly where geologists hoped it would be

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...
Eurasia Review

The Earth Formed From Local Building Blocks

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed our Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner Solar System, they consider it likely that 6–40 per cent of this material ...