High in the Tobacco Root Mountains of Montana, a wall of stone rises from the forest floor in clean, geometric tiers that ...

Vibrant red sandstone surrounded Nicholas Heinz as he hiked in Sedona, Ariz., in January 2024. But an odd rock, smaller than the palm of his hand, caught his eye. The gray basalt peppered with ...

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To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world. The following is an excerpt from The Whispers of Rock: The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified ...

On the surface of Mars, a rover has filled over two dozen airtight titanium tubes with pristine rock samples, each a little thicker than a pencil. Some tubes have been stashed on the Red Planet's ...

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains ...