Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

The Snowball Earth ... rocks to reveal when the right geological circumstances existed for sand injection. We found a way to ...

Liquid-filled rocks form when minerals trap fluids, but depending on their composition they can either be classed as enhydros ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

We now think that Earth's outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called “plates ... a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere ...

China produces nearly two-thirds of the world's rare earth metals and has imposed export controls on minerals such as graphite and gallium ... It is the largest hard-rock lithium deposit in Europe and ...

Through tectonic movements, Earth’s plates pull carbon from the atmosphere into the mantle, stabilizing the climate. They ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Petrified wood forms through a process known as permineralization, which happens under very specific conditions. It all starts with the burial of organic plant material—trees and other types of ...

and economic (minerals and ore deposits) resources, surface and groundwater resources, urban development and land use. The ...

The University of Victoria professor helped rewrite a crucial part of our planet’s history by identifying compelling evidence ...