A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

The Perseverance rover has sampled mm-size lithic fragments containing olivine likely from at least two source regions from ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Famed for its interlocking basalt columns, Giant’s Causeway Beach is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Volcanic activity created ...

There are over 4,000 identified minerals on Earth. Common rocks include granite, basalt, limestone, and sandstone. The most common rock-forming minerals include quartz, feldspar, mica, amphibole, ...

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat should make rock flow rather than break. The key is a mineral ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths ...

They exposed synthetic iron-rich minerals to nitrogen-laced water, triggering a chemical reaction that oxidized the rock and yielded ammonia, which the team dubbed “geological ammonia.” The process ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

The year is 1981, the Cold War is very much a going concern and, when a Soviet nuclear Whiskey class submarine strays into Swedish waters, the world's biggest powers fear the worst. While nuclear ...

The team then swapped the synthetic mineral with olivine, a natural iron-laden rock, to better mimic real-world scenarios. They further optimized the process by adding a copper catalyst and ...