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

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

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

We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

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

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

EARTH is just shy of 4.6 billion years old and roughly a couple hundred million years later the planetary blob began to cool enough for it to form its first crust.

Trace of Earth’s original 4.3 billion-year-old crust found on surface SCIENTISTS have discovered a piece of Earth’s first crust, dating back some 4.3 billion years. less than 2 min read ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...