Have you ever wondered what those white pellets were in your potting soil? Well, it's more important than you may know.

A new study has shown that as early as the Stone Age, people in Africa traveled long distances to procure colorful stone, the ...

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Last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover revealed something unusual on the slopes of Jezero Crater. It snapped a photo of a strange rock, covered in round lumps that looked like spider eggs in a nest. Dr.

The NASA rover Perseverance recently discovered a strange rock on Mars, which appears to be made up of small rounded stones a few hundred millimeters in diameter. NASA’s research team is trying ...

Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic properties that make it a promising material for ultrafast next-generation computing.

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of years are missing. Now, researchers at Utah State University have ...

A schematic highlights the trellis or basket-weave pattern composed of tiny crystals of the iron-oxide mineral hematite that is diagnostic of the hematite pseudomorph, martite. The image at left is a ...

Time will tell: Geoscientists develop tool to chronicle unexplained gaps in the rock record by Mary-Ann Muffoletto, Utah State University ...

Scientists once believed our planetary next-door neighbor got its rusty hue from hematite, a common iron ore known for its ...