A recent breakthrough in the world of geology and physics has surfaced with the discovery of a rare mineral deep beneath the ...

The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered to Earth in 2020 by the ...

A recent study of microscopic grains collected from Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft found the tiny space rock harbors ...

A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that have never before been seen on Earth in a 15 tonne meteorite found in Somalia — the ninth largest meteorite ever found.

April 7, 2020 Purdue researchers 3D-print minerals in order to better predict fracture formation Purdue University professor Laura Pyrak-Nolte and physics graduate student Liyang Jiang use a 3D X-ray ...

After reclassifying all of Earth's minerals based on where and how they formed, geologists ended up with a catalog of more than 10,000 kinds.

In a landmark body of work, researchers detail the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth and beyond.