"Water abundance in the lunar mantle provides insights into the giant impact formation models for the Moon and plays a ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Scientists with NASA's Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

During 2024, 64,550 linear meters of ground geophysics (IP induced polarization) were surveyed in the Palito region. The IP ...

X” really does mark a spot in Sybille Canyon along Wyoming Highway 34, but it doesn’t mark the site of buried treasure. It’s ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian ... variably weak seismic tremor returned. Tiltmeters at two different locations in the volcano’s summit region had each recorded about 2 ...

Kyiv and Washington are reported to be closing in on signing a deal to allow the U.S. access to Ukraine's mineral deposits—trillions-of-dollars worth of rare earth elements, which are critical ...

He then picked up another jar filled with a clay-red colored powder. “Each seaweed has this different mineral composition,” he said. “This one you can see is much, much redder. So this one ...

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining Issue, which examines the global race to extract critical minerals for the clean energy transition. While “there’s a lot of room ...