In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the ...

Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt.  But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, rocks crushed under kilometres of ice injected vital nutrients into Earth’s oceans.

Mars may have once been a paradise with Earth-like oceans and balmy beaches that would have been ideal for harboring living ...

“We envisioned a new chemistry to activate the inert [not chemically reactive] silicate minerals through a simple ion-exchange reaction,” Chen explained. Ions are atoms or groups of atoms with an ...

Telluride is a Cubist’s rendering of mountains. Overlapping triangles rim the horizon; the valley floor meets the box canyon ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...

Rocks are categorized into three main types: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. There are over 4,000 identified minerals on Earth. Common rocks include granite, basalt, limestone, and sandstone.