Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

Redman played an energetic hometown set in Newark, while Busta Rhymes is forever the showman. Decades of hip-hop history ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

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

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

Natural cement found in industrial waste reacts with ocean water to form rocks in just 35 years, instead of millions.

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

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

Jonathan O'Neil / AP 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.