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Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...
The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...
UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.
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In 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity spotted similar strange spheres, so-called "Martian Blueberries", and since ...
Miners discover a one-of-a-kind amethyst crystal inside a large basalt geode in the Santa Rosa mine in Uruguay’s Artigas ...
The bizarre Martian rocks just keep on comin'. NASA's Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that's "astonished" scientists while exploring the rim of the Jezero crater on ...
Scientists have found unusual, blueberry-like rocks on Mars that could give us more insights into its geological history.
Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing to a growing library of compounds that could be a vital clue about the ...
Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...
Trump signed executive orders hoping to boost the coal industry amid a surging demand for electricity in the U.S. Here’s a ...
Somewhere between 250 and 330 million years ago, a big tectonic boom closed the Agulhas Sea, compressing thick sedimentary deposits until they folded and thrust and formed a remarkable mountain range, ...