Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A detailed image of planet Earth created from photographs taken by Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument on ...

Few topics have been as contentious among both scientists and laypeople as the age of the Earth. Many scientists are people of faith, but from the moment the ancients found seashell fossils high in ...

Children ask very interesting questions about the world we live in. Among the most asked questions is, “How old is the Earth?” The answer to this question is not simple. It involves science, space, ...

U.S. House Rep. Paul Broun, a Georgia Republican, doesn't believe in evolution, the Big Bang theory, or the teachings of embryology. In fact, in a Sept. 27 talk at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, ...

Nearly 5 billion years ago, a dense cloud of gas and dust occupied this corner of the Milky Way. The planets we know today, including Earth, were nowhere to be found. Scientists think that a nearby ...