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Researchers from Stellenbosch University and other institutions utilized advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating along with elemental mapping to analyze traces of uranium and lead in the calcite…
Rock layers reveal insights into our planet’s deep past, such as these in Canada Paul Andreassen/Alamy hierarchyLaura Poppick (WW Norton) The narrative of Earth is one…
What if the secrets to discovering life on Mars lie hidden in our own environment? In the planet’s most extreme habitats, microbial life flourishes in unlikely…
On July 24, 2025, with 4,608 Mars Days, or Sols, into the mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a stunning image of a wind-shaped rock resembling coral…
The Pilbara Craton in Western Australia features rocks that date back 3.5 billion years. Elizabeth Czitronyi / Alamy Rocks from Australia reveal that tectonic plates were…
Canadian Nuvvuagittuq Green Stone Belt may contain the world’s oldest rockJonathan O’Neill About four billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle intruded the primitive crust of…
The other side of the moon – the part that is always far from the earth – is strangely different from close. It is pockmarked with…
Olivine rock naturally reacts with carbon dioxide, but it’s a slow business Renhour48 via Wikimedia/CC0 1.0 Universal The new process will allow crushed rocks to capture…
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and others have discovered pockets of living microorganisms in mineral-filled veins in 2 billion-year-old rocks taken from South Africa’s Bushveld…
The leopard-spot-like features in the center of the image may be a sign of ancient life.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a rock speckled with what…
The Chang’e-6 probe is recovered in Xiziwang Banner, Inner Mongolia, China.Xinhua/Shutterstock China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft has returned to Earth, bringing back the first chunk of space rock…
The Madigen Formation is one of the richest Triassic fossil beds in the world, but few people have ever heard of it.geo explorers club About 235…
Some amino acids can become concentrated when traveling through cracks in hot rocks. Sebastian Kauritzky / Alamy Chemical reactions key to the origin of life on…