Ever wonder how Earth scientists examine rocks? We cut them up and throw them under a microscope ... and then everything ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa may have the potential to disturb Earth’s magnetic field, according to new research. These formations appear to have different ...

Martian Rock Analysis Reveals the Planet Had 'Secret Ingredient' That Was Ideal for Starting Life Planet Mars has always been ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.

Deep below Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...

A study of ancient stromatolites reveals that ammonium reservoirs in early Earth's oceans, likely influenced by volcanic activity, may have supported microbial life before the Great Oxidation Event.

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

He was the first to demonstrate that the different strata of rock in the Paris basin each had ... the old species were replaced by new ones that repopulated Earth. Cuvier could be called the ...

To put that in perspective, the Earth is thought to be about 4.5 billion years old, which means these "rocks"—really bacterial ... "so we need to move it to a different background." ...

We explored minerals with these sequences of rock and found consistent distinctive changes during periods of time when snowball events started and also when thawing occurred. Snowball Earth events ...