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

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

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

That puts it in the Hadean eon – Earth’s chaotic infancy, when the planet’s surface simmered with volcanic fury and asteroid impacts were frequent enough to ruin any early landscaping efforts. Until ...

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

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

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec contains Earth's oldest-known rocks, aged 4.16 billion years. This ...

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after ...

The oldest rocks on Earth are especially helpful for scientists, as they contain Hadean minerals, which are minerals from Earth’s first geological eon. This particular eon spans from the ...

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.