"While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain." ...

In a windswept stretch of northern Quebec, where the Arctic wind kisses the shores of Hudson Bay, and the summer sun barely crests the horizon, scientists believe they’ve uncovered pieces of Earth ...

From the wild coasts of Québec to the dusty hills of Western Australia, scientists are chasing the oldest rocks on Earth to unlock our planet’s earliest secrets. These ancient survivors—some over 4 ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

(murat4art/iStock/Getty Images) When scientists disagree, sometimes the truth is somewhere in the middle. That has turned out to be true for the age of an impact crater deep in the remote scrublands ...

Detective work by scientists has identified the Earth's oldest known asteroid impact crater in the Western Australian outback.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia. These ancient rocks show that water was likely already ...

Inside Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Garden stands a rock formation estimated to be between 3.0 and 3.4 billion years old, ...

Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young Earth. The collision happened at a time when the planet looked very ...

Within the Canadian Shield, hydrogen gas is steadily building up naturally among some of the oldest rocks on Earth. Now, for the first time, geochemists at the University of Toronto and the University ...