Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Planet Earth has a way of crafting landscapes that seem to belong in a science fiction movie rather than on our own home soil. From stones that move on their own to mountains that look like chocolate ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

Deep beneath our feet, a quiet energy revolution is taking shape. Geologists now argue that naturally occurring hydrogen ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, ...

Ever stood next to a 1.5-billion-year-old elephant? At Elephant Rocks State Park in Belleview, Missouri, you can do exactly that—well, sort of. The same massive boulder from another angle, showing ...

Ari Koeppel previously received funding from NASA science grants. He is affiliated with The Planetary Society. Any views represented in this article are those of the author. The budget cuts do not ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered its most compelling clue yet in the search for life on Mars. A rock sample called “Sapphire Canyon,” taken from the Bright Angel formation in Jezero Crater, ...

A six-wheeled geologist named Perseverance may have just found the first extraterrestrial life form. A year ago, the rover came across mineral patterns that resembled the chemical signature of ...

There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...