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

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

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

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago ... but in the origins of life itself. Tim Johnson is a field and metamorphic geologist with expertise in phase equilibria and the ...

However, this estimate is speculative, as the technique may not be very accurate, said Matt Kohn, a metamorphic ... rocks contains gneisses, as well as pockets of leucogranites formed by partial ...

Rocks loafing about on the surface of Mars have been harboring secrets about the red planet's mysterious past. The mineral content of oddly pale rocks found in Jezero Crater can only have formed under ...

This mineral typically forms in either igneous or metamorphic environments. That posed an important question ... “Investigating these rocks in place will help us test our hypotheses on how the rocks ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Metamorphic proteins, known for their ability to switch shapes, may be influenced by temperature, particularly cold temperatures. This temperature dependence ...

The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Our discovery is published in Nature Communications. Curiously enough, the crater was ...