Deep in the Martian crust, the crew came upon an outcrop featuring igneous minerals solidified from magma. Working with ESA, NASA's Mars Sample Return Program gathers sealed samples from Mars for ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

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Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and ...

And thanks to the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, an area once deemed “absolutely worthless” has become one of the Valley’s ...

X” really does mark a spot in Sybille Canyon along Wyoming Highway 34, but it doesn’t mark the site of buried treasure. It’s ...

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how unconformities form. Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the world.

As the NASA blog points out, these spheres might result from either sedimentary or igneous processes ... are diagenetic concretions (formed deep within rock through fluid interactions) or ...

UNIQUE. One of the rock formations in Biri, Northern Samar in this March 25, 2025 photo. Geologists from the National Committee on Geological Sciences have confirmed the presence of unique rock ...

GEOLOGICAL WONDER. An expert examines the rock formations in Palapag, Northern Samar in this March 24, 2025 photo. The Northern Samar provincial government has welcomed a comprehensive assessment of ...

while igneous rocks are formed from magma and contain minerals like feldspar. By combining chemical data with what they saw under the microscope, the team inferred that the Neyveli lignite deposits ...