Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

Along the coast of South Africa, strange rocky formations quietly grow in places where life seems unlikely to survive. These ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover may soon set a record for the longest distance driven on another planet.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has rolled into a fresh patch of Martian terrain and cracked open a rock that should not exist there, ...

Asteroids are no longer just celestial curiosities on a telescope chart; they are emerging as test beds for a new resource ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that "mineral" products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...

Test your rock & mineral smarts—are you a Rock Star? Think you know rocks and minerals? Take the Science Trek quiz! Test your smarts on gold, salt, Earth’s oldest rocks, gemstones on Mars, and the ...

What is the difference between a rock and a stone? What is a rock? What is a stone? There is a difference. Find out what it is. Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and Idaho ...

It’s more than just a fundraiser. Cranbrook Institute of Science’s Women Rock Science being presented Oct. 8 not only raises funding for Cranbrook’s STEAM programming for schools across Michigan, but ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KJCT) - The 79th Annual Gem, Mineral, & Rock Show was held at the Mesa County Fairgrounds on September 20 and 21. Vendors from across the country and Colorado were invited by the ...