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

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

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

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

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

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

In fact, there are just under 6,000 different minerals on Earth that we know about, the outlet said. Despite being found in the same location, the three minerals are drastically different.

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

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.

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...