High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover studied an unusual rock with paper-thin layers that look like a worn book. It's the latest ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

Now, University College London researchers have found evidence in an outcrop of rocks in Scotland, known as the Port Askaig Formation, that show evidence of the transition from a tropical Earth to a ...

Most of the balancing rocks in Chitungwiza and other towns are being destroyed and crushed into concrete for construction ...

At that time, what is now Ireland was submerged under a shallow tropical sea. The marine environment was home to a wide ...

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call "snowball Earth", when our planet ...

In the arid vastness of this corner of the Arabian Peninsula, out where goats and the occasional camel roam, rocks form the ...

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris restates position on fracking. Here's what the controversial process actually ...

Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...

Crunching along a rocky Fox Island beach Thursday afternoon Tonya Strickland stopped for a moment, a smooth gray-blue rock ...