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

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

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs about how the planet’s first continents came into being. Researchers from ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

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

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

Rare earth elements are not rare in the Earth's crust, but they are seldom found in concentrated forms, making them expensive ...

The Hadean Eon, Earth's first geological period, remains shrouded in mystery due to scarce rock records. However, Québec's ...

TOKYO — Japan will starting January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its ...

Sotheby's auction also includes a piece of the moon shaped into a sphere, and a space rock advertised as 'the oldest matter ...