In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

The Guinness World Record for the oldest Earth rock is currently held by the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, which is listed as ...

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

The chemical signature of rocks formed in subduction zones (where one plate has slipped beneath another) is distinctive in its low quantity of the element Niobium. Scientists thought finding the ...

Red Rocks near Denver is famous for hosting the biggest bands on the planet. Its near-perfect acoustics are provided by its red sandstone, which got its first deep cleaning in 119 years this month ...