By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

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 ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

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.

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

Chinese scientists believe samples found by Chang'e-6 mission answer central question in lunar science, but some in the West have doubts A year after China returned the first rock samples from the ...

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 ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover examines a complex Martian rock, collects rare minerals, and sets a new driving record.

Very little is definitive when dealing with rocks and minerals that have complex geological histories spanning more than 4 billion years, according to Jesse Reimink, the Rudy L. Slingerland Early ...