The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) is the largest and deepest basin on the Moon, theoretically opening a window into the lunar lower crust and likely into the upper mantle. However, compositional information ...

The Perseverance rover has collected its third sample from a Martian rock. The announcement was posted in a tweet posted by the rover's team on its official Twitter account. The Perseverance rover has ...

Agriculture produces what might be some of the hardest planet-warming carbon emissions to eliminate. People need to eat, and right now, the way we make food generates a lot of greenhouse gases — about ...

On a beach in the Caribbean, a nonprofit called Project Vesta will soon begin testing a radical new way to fight climate change that involves spreading ground-up olivine—a cheap green mineral—over the ...

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, as Marilyn Monroe sang 70 years ago – and fiendishly hard to find. “Diamond producers sometimes wish they were mining gold, copper or some other raw material, ...

NASA and University of Arizona researchers have discovered pristine mineral grains that formed in an ancient supernova explosion. The grains were among other extraterrestrial dust plucked by ...

Geoscientists have discovered a natural laboratory to test claims that the carbon captured during the erosion and weathering of common rocks could be a viable mitigation strategy against global ...