Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

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The Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Oak Brook, Illinois, is exactly that kind of hidden treasure. If you’re wondering what ...

Moving through the museum, you’ll encounter one of its most famous treasures: the Castle Lizzadro. This miniature golden ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Sealing the “Green Gardens” sample — collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from a rock dubbed “Tablelands” along the rim of Jezero Crater on February 16, 2025 — presented an engineering ...

The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that ...

Because these crater floor samples came from igneous rocks forged in lava flows, they can help scientists understand the chemical composition of Mars’s interior, Wadhwa points out.

Because martitie is common in many rocks, he and Ault note their forensic tool can be applied throughout geologic time to investigate weathering, alternation, and erosion of Earth’s crust, along with ...