A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 billion years. These ancient rocks offer a rare glimpse into the Hadean eon, a ...

Unusual hydrogen signatures in volcanic rocks may come from Earth’s core. Simulations suggest ancient magma crystallization cannot explain the differences.

Geology often gets a bad rap as the boring study of rocks and minerals. I’m hear to show you otherwise. Geology is a high-octane window into Earth’s vibrant, often violent history. Every rock tells a ...

Two test methods put the rocks at 4.16 billion years old. Volcanic rocks date to primordial Earth's Hadean aeon. Rocks are surviving fragments of Earth's oldest crust. Along the eastern shore of ...

The story of Earth is the story of change. The 4.5 billion years of this planet’s history saw it transformed from a hellish world of magma oceans and poisonous air to a temperate, habitable home ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare. Reading time 2 minutes Due to the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, our ...

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The first rocks ever returned from the Moon's hidden hemisphere show the same mantle under both faces, so the thick, pale far ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

The 6,000-year claim faces evidence from several places that have little to do with one another. What those independent clocks reveal is difficult to reconcile with the familiar young-Earth timeline.