Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

From the ongoing series of remarkable discoveries on Earth… NASA recently identified a peculiar white, glowing formation deep ...

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

The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Our discovery is published today in Nature Communications .

But new research published by our team in Science Advances suggests that many of these elements, called volatiles, may have existed in the Earth from the beginning, while it formed into a planet.

In a new study released in Nature this week, researchers say Earth formed within just 3 million years. That’s notably faster than previous estimates that place the timeline as high as 100 ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust.

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.