Every mystical quest features a journey riddled with challenges, a cast of colourful characters, and a treasure trove that unlocks more intrigue. The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Studies of these zircon minerals has given us clues about the Hadean environment, and the formation and evolution of Earth’s ...

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are a massive mountain belt that spans Antarctica, separating the eastern part of the ...

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

Now housed in a cramped courthouse basement, the Little Rock Police Department's evidence storage facility is destined for much more spacious quarters -- the 60,000-square-foot building on West ...

Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet Samples from Hawaii seem to contain material that passed across the boundary between the planet’s core and its mantle, nearly 3,000 kilometres below ...

Follow us on Google News (click on ☆) A close-up of the Martian rock of interest, showing areas called 'poppy seeds' and 'leopard spots'. Credit: J.A. Hurowitz et al. The Cheyava Falls rock on Mars ...

NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life.

For the study, the researchers examined Tava sandstones that reside in Colorado’s Front Range that have been shoved down the surface over time. Using radiometric dating techniques, which help put ...