Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

The government has identified several areas in the northeast region enriched with critical and strategic minerals which are ...

It is the test bed for a collaboration between academics, space agencies and mineral exploration companies which aims to ...

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

Perseverance cracked open a tricky Mars rock to find water-related minerals, then zoomed across the landscape to make its ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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

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

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...