NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on Mars, which probably had to have formed in the ...

Surrounded by green hills and beige rock, Lake Salda sits in what is sometimes called the Turkish Lake District, a great ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

The 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...

The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity — or not.

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Jezero Crater on Mars was once home to a lake, delta and rivers. See an animation of what it could have looked like when water poured into the crater billions of years ago and present day. Credit: ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

NASA's Perseverance rover, which has been exploring Mars since 2021, fired its laser at some oddly pale rocks on the surface ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...