The world's oldest rocks are spread across ... ridge contains crystallized minerals called zircons dating to 4.4 billion years ago, making them the oldest Earth materials ever found.

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

There would be no bright and colorful fireworks without rocks ... mineral celestite. Baryte crystal on matrix from Cerro Huarihuyn, Peru. Strontium is one of the most abundant elements in the ...

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered.

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Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer. In a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and ...

Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery. The Jack Hills, in Western Australia, contain tiny traces of rock that are older than the hills themselves. The 50-mile-long (80 ...

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.