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

Researchers say they might have discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. The rocks in question are a belt of swirly, ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Scientists say they’ve extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after ...

Most agree the rock is at least 3.75 billion years old — but that wouldn’t make it Earth’s oldest. A close up picture of the 4.16 billion-year-old rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt ...