In a recent study, researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia unearthed compelling ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone ...

Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making ...

Carbonate minerals contain carbon dioxide, which, when present in the atmosphere, warms a planet. These minerals suggest that carbon dioxide could have previously existed in the atmosphere in larger ...

In a significant palaeobotanical discovery, ptilophyllum fossils — leaf imprints preserved in sedimentary rocks — were ...

Zales & Halle Bailey Dish Up Diamonds At Double Chicken Please. Diamonds are forever! Zales toasted the allure of everyone’s ...

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas refining, and computer and phone screens. Deposited in just a few accessible ...

Researchers warn that current land management models don't account for accelerated, human-driven rock formation processes.

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

The Perseverance rover, belonging to NASA, encountered an unusual rock on Mars that scientists have named the "skull," ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed they had a firm grasp on how these waves revealed the rocky mantle’s secrets ...