A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

The science pros at TKOR show how bread can be made using minerals and chemistry. Suspected gunman uttered 4 words before shooting Indiana judge and wife: dispatch audio Opinion: Attorney General ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye—yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her ...

In this experiment, I attempt to make the rarest blue paint in the world straight from rocks. From crushing minerals to mixing pigments, every step is a journey into art and science. I explore the ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...