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

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

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

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

A belt of volcanic rock along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Quebec province has been confirmed as the oldest ...

Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...

Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

A troy ounce bar of gold is worth a hefty sum of money, but the same amount of this mineral is worth over a hundred million ...

WA’s Gascoyne region was dug up by old timers for over a century, with towns built on the dreams of gold prospectors.