Due to the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates, our planet’s crust is constantly recycled, making rocks and minerals from its earliest days incredibly rare. That’s frustrating for geologists ...

SCIO — When Rose Schatz talks about finding new rocks to polish, her face lights up like a kid at Christmas.

X-ray diffraction to obtain high-resolution maps of intra-granular stress in the sandstone. By combining stress mapping with stepwise compression, the team observed increasing stress heterogeneity ...

Ideally, very old rocks can be dated using a hardy mineral called zircon, which maintains its original chemical make-up over billions of years. But these volcanic rocks didn’t contain zircon.

An engraved panel from Aswan may show one of Egypt's earliest political elites. It reveals how rulers used art to claim space ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new study claims. The analysis dated the site's streaky gray rocks, part of an ...

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest? New research suggests they are.

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

The hyper-realistic pork belly rocks were skillfully carved to highlight the layers - skin, fat and meat.

Guy on Rocks: Brazilian Critical Minerals an REE rarity Guy Le Page looks at a rare earth player in Brazilian Critical Minerals and an uncommon in-situ project showing some impressive numbers.