Canada is the land of hockey, maple syrup, and a tendency to end every sentence with the word “eh” – it’s also home to the oldest rocks on Earth.. A new study, published in Science, confirmed that the ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Jezero Crater, once a lake bed some 3.5 billion years ago, has become the focus of NASA’s search for signs of past life. It’s ...

Rocks from northern Quebec formed more than 4 billion years ago, in the Hadean eon In 2008, Canadian researchers led by ...

Sedimentary rock is comprised of sediment, as the name suggests. Over time, tiny minerals, sand, rocks, and debris layer on ...

In 2008, Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really ...

Puffy, wispy, white and gray, we’ve seen them all this spring. Clouds come in a variety of types, and each type comes with ...

Missouri’s state symbols showcase the items, plants, animals and places that form the unique culture the Show-Me State is ...

From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

Those terrestrial plants die, and over millions of years, the decomposing plants were buried and compressed until sedimentary rock formed. Coal develops very slowly.

Scientists have verified Ice Age footprints in White Sands National Park, showing humans lived in North America during the ...