Museum planetary science researcher Prof Sara Russell explains the origins of Earth's closest companion. No bigger than a smartphone, this remarkable rock has layers that tell ... will be displayed in ...

Deep below the Earth’s surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the chemicals fossilized within shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue and green.

A host of problems with existing projects are only making matters worse. Ore quality—the amount of valuable metal in a sample of rock—is declining, forcing miners to dig deeper; mining permits can ...

an honorary professor of Earth sciences at Aberystwyth University in the U.K., told Live Science in an email. "These are termed the common rock-forming minerals and include feldspar, olivine ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past.