The Atlas of Minerals and Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks in Thin-section provides the geology student and geoscientist with a stunning new color atlas of the main rock-forming minerals and igneous and ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Rocks play a vital yet often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle. Through a natural process that has ...

Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, and Ryan Ickert, a ...

The Perseverance rover has reached the top of the Jezero Crater rim on Mars, a hike that rose 1,640 feet — higher than the ...

While sampling has gained fresh prominence thanks to the accessibility of modern technology and is most commonly associated with hip-hop and electronic music, rock bands have also been employing this ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life Chinese scientists have come up with a new idea: instead of looking for water, they ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has a rock collection that would make any geologist jealous, and the space agency is giving a sneak peek at the rocks before the samples head to Earth. Perseverance ...

Marvel over NASA’s Mars rock collection. Each of these rock samples was selected by the agency’s Perseverance Mars rover team with the intention of returning them to scientific labs on Earth for ...

While all Martian meteorites have clues about the planet’s geologic history, most of them are igneous rocks like those found ... so special is that it’s a sample of regolith from the surface ...

Scientists examining a rock sample from outer space thought they’d hit the jackpot recently when they discovered that it was teeming with life. But they soon learned that the microbes actually ...