Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Lauren Harrison, postdoctoral ...

These rocks really shouldn't be there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The surprising discovery of volcanic, "igneous," rocks by ...

Researchers compiled previously published thorium-uranium ratios (Th/U) of more than 29,000 igneous rocks spanning the past 3 billion years and report 2 dramatic decreases occurring at approximately 2 ...

THE magnetization of dated igneous rocks has been much used for the study of the directions of the geomagnetic field in remote geological periods. This method is based on the supposition that igneous ...

One main goal of NASA's Mars 2020 mission is to determine when conditions on the planet were conducive to the formation of liquid water. Hence the target Jezero crater, seemingly a lakebed with a ...