At the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, researchers presented evidence from NASA’s Perseverance rover that ...

In celebration of National Rock Day, learn how several rock specimens in the new exhibition “From These Lands” shed light on the nation’s geological heritage ...

Inside Bengaluru's Lalbagh Botanical Garden stands a rock formation estimated to be between 3.0 and 3.4 billion years old, ...

Ancient samples from the moon's far side are helping scientists uncover how asteroid impacts shaped the early solar system.

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe will also help defend the planet against potentially threatening space rocks ...

Rocks from the Moon’s far side suggest asteroid impacts slowly decreased instead of peaking in one brief catastrophe. The ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich, used an advanced computer model to show that some of Venus's rift valleys may be much younger than ...

Ancient volcanic rocks from Western Australia suggest that water was reaching deep into Earth’s interior more than three ...

Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, ...

Their sound defined mid-70s California, but they perfected it during a residency as a ski lodge house band and a drizzly ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major role in shaping Earth's interior and driving volcanic activity more than 3 ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia. These ancient rocks show that water was likely already ...