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

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

Researchers say they might have discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. The rocks in question are a belt of swirly, ...

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

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological formation.

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

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists discovered three minerals that had previously never been found naturally occurring on Earth. According to two papers published in the Canadian Journal of Mineralogy ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Studying rocks from Earth’s earliest history could give a glimpse into how the planet may have looked — how its roiling magma oceans gave way to tectonic plates — and even how life got started.