Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

A group of scientists has discovered a hidden layer of molten rock under the Earth’s surface ... has been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming, and tech culture.

This water, now over 4.5 billion years old, has been perpetually renewed through Earth's water cycle. My research team ... Comets, which are mixtures of ice and rock formed in the distant reaches ...

Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

The space rock caused quite a stir after astronomers first spotted it last year on a trajectory bringing it uncomfortably ...

Doing that would require bringing the leopard-spot rock back to Earth for analysis ... Today’s talks, given at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, were the ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent ...

The study, published in Science Advances ... may one day drill deep into Martian rock to search for signs of ancient or even extant life. Until then, Earth's own subsurface remains a frontier ...

By Katrina Miller Astronomers have been carefully watching 2024 YR4, a space rock with a heightened chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... Katrina Miller is a science reporter for The Times based ...