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

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

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

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

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

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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