Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Your browser does not support the video element. The durable mineral zircon is the oldest known stuff in our Earth's crust. It is formed only under extreme ...

A range of ancient crystals comes from the Jack Hills in Western Australia's midwest. Chemical clues contained in the Zircon crystals revealed that the hot, molten rocks in which they originated ...

A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon crystal is providing new insight into how the early Earth cooled from a ball of magma and formed continents just 160 million years after the formation of our solar ...

The zircon crystals we found in river sand and rocks from Finland have signatures that point towards them being much older than anything ever found in Scandinavia, while matching the age of ...