Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...

An aluminum tab from a drinks can found encased in a new form of rock on the Cumbrian coastline has helped provide scientists ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown.

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Explore the latest discoveries about Mars' ancient carbon cycle revealed by NASA's Curiosity rover in Gale Crater.

NASA’s Perseverance rover, with help from QUT scientists, has uncovered layered evidence of ancient water activity beneath ...

A new hypothesis from SETI Institute scientist Dr. Janice Bishop and Dr. Melissa Lane from Fibernetics in Pennsylvania could ...

A new study analyzing data from NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming events just beneath the Martian surface -- findings that bring scientists one ...

On Earth, these materials often form in the shallows of fresh ... climate and environment on Mars.” The sedimentary samples could have come from rocks deposited by rivers and in lakes, Wadwa ...