Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

That would make Gunung Padang the oldest pyramid in the world. Natawidjaja and his ... to build upon the pyramid by adding a layer of bricks and rock columns, which was afterward covered with ...

a temple in the foreground with trees and mountains in the background The Anshan area in northeastern China holds the country's oldest rocks and some of the most ancient rocks in the world.

The oldest rock in the United States has been discovered in Michigan, with zircons dating back 3.82 billion years.

The oldest rocks on Earth are more than just ancient ... an organisms life's story is the key to figuring out why our incredible living world is the way it is. Today, we're gonna explore that ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here's what to know.

"The Morton gneiss — no longer the oldest rock in the world, or in the United States — nevertheless serves as an outstanding example of how U-Pb zircon data can be used to unravel complex ...