Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

An isolated and wind-blasted stretch of Canada’s Hudson Bay shoreline may hold the oldest surviving fragment of our planet's ...

We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...

At the time, the Earth's surface was hot enough to bake pizza, but rocks still solidified. Those in this area formed almost ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...