"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

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

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

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.

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

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

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

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

In northern Quebec, an exceptional geological formation spans across time. Researchers have just confirmed that these stones, ...

British researchers have developed diamond batteries that use carbon-14 to generate microwatts' worth of power for up to ...

The rocks and soil samples from asteroid Ryugu have provided new insights into the nature of primitive asteroids and the formation of the Solar Syste ...