Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Scientists working with NASA’s Perseverance rover reported an unusual striped rock discovered on the slopes of Jezero Crater, drawing attention from r.

Kris Wang is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, where he is studying geosciences with a focus on volcanology and igneous petrology.

Following the last two years, the Lapworth Museum of Geology is proud to once again celebrate International Women's Day with ...

Not a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nation’s first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.… Using multiple orbital datasets, a ...

ATTENTION has been directed in these columns to this now well-known text-book on two previous occasions. On May 14, 1891 (vol. xliv., p. 25), the first edition was reviewed at length, and on May 20, ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.

THE direction of remanent magnetization of igneous rocks has recently been examined in detail 1 in order to investigate the secular variation in the geomagnetic field, and its relation to the problem ...

It started with a rock that didn’t look like a big deal. Just a dark lump in the Sahara. The kind of thing you could walk ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Wyoming may have the geology to produce Olympic-grade curling stones, a state geologist says. State. Sen. Cale Case, who ...