On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

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

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.

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

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

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...

Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as “tiny, pristine” time capsules.

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really proven it and are ...

It is made of a rock called tuff, which has been weakened by multiple magma intrusions over tens of thousands of ... They characterized the minerals and elements in the samples and also subjected them ...

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.