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 ...

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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.

The stones are derived from igneous rocks near Marathon, Ontario, known as the Coldwell Alkaline Complex and were transported into Michigan by glaciers during periods of continental glaciation.

Here's what to know about the rock that is found in the Upper Peninsula along Lake Superior: What is a Yooperlite? Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula ...

The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here's what to know.