Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada have been dated to approximately 4.16 billion years old using two independent radiometric methods, making them among the oldest known on Earth.

New testing shows that these are Earth's oldest-known rocks. Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of ...