If you’ve ever studied geography, looked at fossils in a museum, or even looked up at a craggy cliffside or a steep mountain, you’ll know that rocks usually take millions of years to form. However, ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

On a remote rocky outcropping in northern Canada, scientists have found further confirmation that the area hosts some of the world’s oldest rocks (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.ads8461). The ...

While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things. They’ve been studying the area for two centuries and mapped the region in great ...

A rock formation in the Mississippi River normally only reachable by boat is accessible by foot for the second year in a row as water levels plummet. Tower Rock juts out of the Mississippi River in ...

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 of streaked gray ...

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