A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...

The biggest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth is heading to auction in New York. Here is a break down of what makes it ...

A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It’s the largest piece of ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Image of crushed up ore from the quantum microscope. Researchers can determine which ores are present in crushed up rocks and colour-code them to distinguish waste from good ore. Driving along rural ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

The Nigerian government wants to refine its resources domestically so they can fetch a higher price on the international ...

At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...