The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

But Curiosity wasn't the only one with a geological mystery. At the same time, roughly 2,300 miles away on the other side of ...

Uluru, a World Heritage site in northern Australia, is renowned for its color-changing ability due to its sandstone ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rovermade an unexpected discovery on the outer rim of Mars’s Jezero Crater: a rock so unusual in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

The Ada Gem, Mineral & Fossil Club is hosting its annual show, swap and sale, this weekend at the Pontotoc County Agri-Plex Bldg #1. Hours are from 8 a.m. to ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered intriguing traces of sulfur crystals embedded in Martian rock formations, adding weight ...

Deep below Earth's surface, rock and mineral formations lay hidden with a secret brilliance. Under a black light, the ...