The first martian rock NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth’s ...

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 and ...

Using molybdenum isotopes, a research team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) discovered that the mantle sources of Cenozoic and Mesozoic mafic igneous rocks from the eastern ...

UNIFORM with the “Rock Minerals” of the same author, now in its second edition, the work which Prof. Iddings has now completed will take an assured place as the fullest and most comprehensive ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 8, No. 5 (May 15, 1922), pp. 108-115 (8 pages) ...

One main goal of NASA's Mars 2020 mission is to determine when conditions on the planet were conducive to the formation of liquid water. Hence the target Jezero crater, seemingly a lakebed with a ...

Subduction is a geological phenomenon that quite literally shapes the planet over time. Taking place at convergent plate boundaries, it involves the sinking of one tectonic plate underneath another ...

Our growing list of sounds on Mars now includes lasers. NASA’s Perseverance rover has begun using its rock-zapping SuperCam instrument on the Red Planet, mission team members announced today (March 10 ...