A rock core was extracted by a team of researchers from a depth of 15 meters belowground, ensuring that the sample had ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Shabbir Ahmed, assistant professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, is conducting ...

Outdoor kitchen countertop ideas can transform your space. Let’s narrow down the options and determine which type is best for ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its possible origin.

Sodalite forms in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich, silica-poor magmas. That’s how it got its name—soda + lithos, or “sodium stone," according to Rock Your World gem & art ...

It forms when igneous rocks like granite undergo intense heat and pressure, changing their structure and appearance over time. But buried within this ancient gneiss is something even more valuable ...

In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the ...