Jadarite, a rare Serbian mineral with lithium and boron, could revolutionize battery supplies for electric vehicles.

On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will auction off a chunk of rock believed to have originated on Mars for an anticipated two to four ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

A 2Bil-year-old Moon rock that fell in Africa bridges a billion-year gap in lunar samples and rewrites what we know about ...

The rocks may have formed when rain fell on molten rock, cooling and solidifying it. That rain would have been composed of water evaporated from Earth's primordial seas.

The rocks tested in the new study were called intrusions. That means they formed when magma - molten rock - penetrated existing rock layers and then cooled and solidified underground. The researchers ...

251 rock samples were taken across the property and focused on ... 20 to 30 meter thick black shale horizons in the Phosphoria Formation, which hosts many of the mineralized exposures. Additional ...

Dr. Liam Courtney-Davies and his team from Curtin University employed a new technique to date hematite crystals found within the Hamersley Province. Their research revealed that these iron ore ...

Natural cement found in industrial waste reacts with ocean water to form rocks in just 35 years, instead of millions.

Natural cement found in industrial waste reacts with ocean water to form rocks in just 35 years, instead of millions.

However, the people who study how these rocks form take it at least one step further and that is looking at rocks under the microscope. However, this isn't your garden variety "make everything bigger" ...