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

Researchers have just confirmed that these stones, aged 4.16 billion years, are the oldest ever identified on our planet. ...

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

How do you date the disappearance of something? That is what Curtin University geologist Milo Barham asked, summarizing the ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

(Reuters) -Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of ...