Scientists say they've extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have been placed at approximately 4.16 billion years old during the Hadean-age ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...

A team of Johns Hopkins researchers is using an innovative X-ray imaging approach to reveal how compression reshapes the tiny spaces and stresses within sandstone—findings that could predict how this ...

This article discusses a study published in Nature that reveals the previously underestimated contribution of geological weathering of carbon-rich sedimentary rocks to the global carbon cycle. The ...

An unparalleled study by Brenda Beitler Bowen, a Central Michigan University postdoctoral research associate, on salty acid lakes in Australia provides a rare, modern analogy to ancient geologic ...

If you’ve ever seen otters romping at the zoo, sometimes it looks like they’re juggling little rocks. It turns out that this playful-looking behavior may actually be something captive otters do in ...

These ancient metamorphic rocks called gneisses, found on the Arctic Coast, represent the roots of the continents now exposed at the surface. The scientists said sedimentary rocks interlayered in ...

The earliest rocks in our Solar System were more like candy floss than the hard rock that we know today, according to research published today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The work, by ...

(CNN) -- Insomniacs may need to return to their earliest remedies for a good night's sleep: A bed that gently rocks like a cradle helped a small group of adults sleep better and longer, a study ...

The inside of the moon isn't as watery as previously reported, according to a new study that found a high variety of chlorine atoms in Apollo moon rocks. For decades scientists had thought the moon is ...