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

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 ...

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

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

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

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

If confirmed, it would make the Nuvvuagittuq belt the oldest known chunk of Earth’s crust, edging out the Acasta Gneiss formation in the Northwest Territories (4.03 billion years old). That might ...

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 ...