Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

In a controversial 2008 study, O’Neil and his research team claimed that they had discovered a part of the original crust in northeast Canada’s remote Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt.

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

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

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

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 ...