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

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung have discovered ...

Potassium-Argon dating is similar to Carbon 14 dating because it uses radioactive decay, measuring the rate of change from an ...

An attempt by the United States to obliterate Iran’s plans to build nuclear warheads on behalf of Israel (which itself evaded ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

Scientists employed two established dating techniques, which measure the decay of radioactive elements, to arrive at the refined age. The discovery significantly contributes to understanding Earth's ...

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever ...

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

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.

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

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

Far more dangerous than U-235 are the elemental products given off when nuclear fuel goes through fission—especially iodine, ...