The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and mineral-filled cracks offer new clues about Mars' ancient climate.

The zebra-like striped patterns that spontaneously appear in rocks are characterized by periodic self-organized red-brown bands consisting of iron oxide minerals. Although the formation of periodic ...

New Claim For World's Oldest Rocks Dates Back A Whopping 4.16 Billion Years Not quite a gateway to hell, but northern Canada has a gateway to the Hadean Eon, named after the Greek God of Hell.

The presence of water (H2O) has been found to increase the susceptibility of sulfur to ignition during production and transportation, primarily due to the spontaneous combustion of iron-sulfide ...

From Lapland in the high north of Finland to Lublin province in eastern Poland, a new and explosive iron curtain is about to descend across Europe. Every Nato country along that line has decided ...

The paleoenvironmental characteristics of the upper Triassic Bagong Formation in the northern Qiangtang basin and its control action on organic matter enrichment ...