Perseverance's drives over the last few weeks have doubled back several times. Why such an unconventional route? Team ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. “We were thrilled!” said Dr. David Grant, a researcher at the ...

Wild Earth Rocks is where crystals sparkle, people find gifts and young geologists dream. 11-year-old Paul Stevens became intrigued by rocks when he was around 6, looking for them in his yard ...

Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare. Pink ChalcedonyA pink chalcedony shows off its beauty. Chalcedonies include many types of cryptocrystalline quartz gems and ...

A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock on Mars in late May. That’s par for the course on the red ...

The region has become a hub for producing and selling rock crystals, with nearly a quarter of its 1.24 million residents ...

When linkurl:Johan Olsen;http://research.ku.dk/outreach/research_stories/rock/ walks through the Copenhagen University cafeteria, undergraduates' eyes light up in ...

The study of titanium silicate minerals is a fascinating area within mineralogy that focuses on the crystal structures and chemical properties of minerals containing titanium and silicon.