Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

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

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

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

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Researchers revisited a crescent-shaped, mammoth tusk artifact discovered in Poland and estimated it’s around 40,000 years ...

Until now, the oldest-known rocks were ones dating to about 4.03 billion years ago from Canada’s Northwest Territories. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

Until now, the oldest-known rocks were ones dating to about 4.03 billion years ago from Canada's Northwest Territories, O'Neil said.

As reported in a study published in 2008, previous tests on samples from the volcanic rock layers that contained the intrusions yielded conflicting dates - one giving an age of 4.3 billion years ...