The Pyura chilensis is a non-moving sea creature that lives along the coasts of Peru and Chile and looks just like a living rock.

What happened on Mars has no parallel on Earth, so it’s going to require a lot of analyzing ancient Martian rocks to reconstruct. “I don’t think we have fully worked out the details ...

Scientists report on the analysis of a surprisingly Earth-like Martian rock, discovered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, that offers new insight into the history of Mars's interior ...

The rarest gemstone in the world is considered to be a transparent mineral of reddish-orange color, of which only one specimen has been found throughout history. It is regarded as a sensation for ...

"In fact, they are igneous rocks. And the form of the igneous rocks that we found is quite surprising, because it doesn't look like a simple volcanic rock that flowed into the crater.

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

First Phosphate properties consist of rare anorthosite igneous phosphate rock that generally yields high purity phosphate material devoid of high concentrations of harmful elements.

The setting in which Earth’s first continental crust formed is unclear because few rocks survive from that time. Geochemical analysis of 4.03-billion-year-old rocks discovered in the Acasta ...

Visual inspection of the dark gray rock suggested that it was probably a fine-grained basaltic igneous rock formed by the crystallization of magma near the planet’s surface.

A team of Caltech-led scientists reports its analysis of a surprisingly Earth-like martian rock, discovered by the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, that offers new insight into the history of ...