Rock climbers at Earth Treks Crystal City look to make positive impacts on the environment while also having fun in the process. To stream WUSA9 on your phone, you need the WUSA9 app.

A massive rock climbing gym has opened in Crystal City. Earth Treks, at 1235 S. Clark Street, opened its doors on Saturday. The 45,000 square foot facility boasts 35,000 square feet of climbing ...

How did the ocean form under Earth's crust? According to scientists, a rock - called 'ringwoodite' - was present 400 miles underground and had a huge supply of water which got stored in it.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Weird Crystal-Studded Meteorite Is 'Completely Different' to Any Other Found on Earth Published Aug 06, 2018 at 12:54 PM EDT Updated Aug 06, 2018 at 2:45 PM EDT The meteorite NWA 11119 is pictured.

New research suggests that the very oldest pieces of rock on Earth—zircon crystals—are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet ...

Origin of Earth's oldest crystals Date: April 28, 2016 Source: Trinity College Dublin Summary: New research suggests that the very oldest pieces of rock on Earth -- zircon crystals -- are likely ...

Geologists rely on tiny crystals of the mineral zircon to understand the timing of key events in Earth's early days, like the rising of continents and the emergence of oceans.

A rock found in the Australian desert nearly 20 years ago has yielded the oldest-known zircon crystal on the earth. In today's issue of Nature, Simon Wilde of Curtin University in Western ...