The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

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 ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

This study systematically classified the lithofacies based on sedimentary textures ... thin-section analysis, whole-rock X-ray diffraction (XRD), total organic carbon (TOC) analysis, pyrolysis, ...

The mineral content of oddly pale rocks found in Jezero Crater can only have formed under very warm, very soggy conditions – suggesting that, long ago, Mars may have been a lot more peculiar than we ...

Cher, Beck Trey Anastasio and Alicia Keys were just four of the highlights of Thursday night’s ninth annual Love Rocks NYC Benefit Concert for God’s Love We Deliver. Held at New York’s ...

That is what Caroline Scheufele, creative mastermind of Chopard, learned when she took on the task of transforming a hulking raw rock into high ... emeralds and diamonds form a base of leaves ...

As the glaciers formed over the landscape ... “In essence, the ‘DNA’ fingerprint of these sedimentary rocks changed.” Some researchers, however, are careful about linking glacial erosion ...

Almost all sedimentary rocks are formed by water erosion, grinding up rocks over thousands or millions of years, before they are compacted and turned under pressure into sedimentary rock.