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

What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

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

Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals: an Aid to the Microscopical Study of Rocks. By H. Rosenbusch. Translated and Abridged for use in Schools and Colleges by Joseph P.Iddings.

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

Minerals are often named after a specific property of the mineral, where it's found, or for arbitrary reasons: Emproto points out "olympite," named for the 1980 Olympic Games.

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

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.

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The elements emerge when ocean islands form.