Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world’s most promising new deposits of niobium — a metal vital for producing high-strength steel and clean ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during medieval times. The martian rock, captured by Perseverance’s primary camera ...

You know what’s fun? Sharpening pencils, organizing a million glue sticks, and trying to explain to a five-year-old why they can’t cut their own bangs during craft time. And by fun, I mean mildly ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Last week, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover continued its journey down lower ‘Witch Hazel Hill’ on the Jezero crater rim. The ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins of life in our universe—if we can get them back to Earth. Clouds of water ...

The increasing presence of igneous rocks in hydrocarbon-bearing basins are drawing more attention. While the roles they play during the hydrocarbon generation and reservoir formation remain poorly ...

This picture shows many tiny cells in which DNA is abundantly included inside the cells. First, the microbial cells were detected in fractures in the rock sample using an infrared imaging technique ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa. “We ...