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

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

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

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

But first thing's first, weird spheres on Mars aren't a brand new phenomenon. In fact, NASA first stumbled across them 21 ...

The bizarre Martian rocks just keep on comin'. NASA's Perseverance Rover has stumbled across an extremely strange rock that's ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Initially formed from molten rock ... The film also discusses how sedimentation leads to the formation of sedimentary rock and mountains, and the role of volcanic activity in shaping the Earth.

and mostly comprises sedimentary rocks that are sandwiched between several kilometres of dark, basaltic lava. However, it also contains spherules—droplets formed from molten rock thrown up ...

Perseverance also spied popcorn-like textures in sedimentary rocks exposed ... that each of these unique rock forms are concretions, which are features formed by groundwater circulating through ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...