In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

The oldest rocks on Earth are more than just ancient—they’re time machines, holding clues to Earth’s missing history and ...

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

To many people, a rock is just a rock. If anyone has been house shopping, you know how realtors will mention that the countertops are "granite" and you might wonder why, from house to house, they all ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet.

Others maintain they formed by plate tectonic processes similar to modern Earth, where rocks collide and push each other over and under. Although these two scenarios are very different ...

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