Perseverance just stumbled upon one of Mars’ weirdest rocks yet—a formation covered in dark, spherical shapes with mysterious ...

What we know about the cataclysmic ‘megaflood’ considered the largest in Earth’s history - The Mediterranean Sea, a largely dry and salty basin, was refilled in just a few years – or months, writes Da ...

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.

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

Miners discover a one-of-a-kind amethyst crystal inside a large basalt geode in the Santa Rosa mine in Uruguay’s Artigas ...

Unlike its more famous neighbors—Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks—this 2,240-acre sanctuary remains relatively unknown to ...

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

Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson says he is feeling grateful after an airplane he was traveling in recently was forced to make an emergency landing. Johnson recalled the ordeal in a video posted to ...

And last year, Perseverance found light-colored sedimentary rocks with an uneven "popcorn-like" texture. In keeping with the appetizing analogues, these latest instances of spherules, found on a slope ...