At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns gas into stone.

In the far, northwestern corner of Oklahoma's Panhandle, you can find Black Mesa State Park and Black Mesa Nature Preserve.

Kellie Ziehm opened Crystals by Kellie in Monroe after years of collecting and sourcing crystals. The shop offers a variety ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

Although crystals are uncommon, those that exist appear as short prisms, acicular and fibrous. The common form of hedenbergite is in aggregate, either granular or massive.

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

The minerals in question are known as raydemarkite, virgilluethite, and stunorthropite. They’re just three of the 5,998 minerals we currently know about on Earth.

S cientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

In the growing fine minerals market, such crystalline gold specimens often sell for far more than the value of the gold by weight (the gold in the Dragon is estimated to weigh around seven ounces, ...