Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not ...

At 2.5 billion years old and weighing in at 2.5 tonnes, the banded iron formation is so heavy that Museum engineers had to reinforce the floor underneath it in Hintze Hall. 'The rock tells a ...

Mars has long been seen as a barren wasteland, but a stunning new discovery by NASA’s Perseverance rover suggests the Red ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth’s first continents. The oldest rocks on Earth formed more ...

Because the lunar samples shared strong similarities with Earth rocks ... a short period of intense pummeling by space rocks called the Late Heavy Bombardment. But research since the 1970s ...

Plants and animals also take a heavy toll on Earth's hardened minerals ... Critters big and small trample, crush, and plow rocks as they scurry across the surface and burrow underground.

The rocks on Earth are constantly changing due to many different processes. There are three main types of rock, with rocks changing between each type over millions of years. This rock recycling is ...