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 ...

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

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 ...

The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern ...

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

Ancient rocks could shed light on Earth's earliest days Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas soon after the solar system existed.

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.

Earth’s early days–and rocks. Earth was a ball of molten lava when it first formed about 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists originally believed that Earth’s first eon–the Hadean–ended ...

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 ...