What FACTS ABOUT ROCKS do you know? They are abundant on earth, and yet little is known about them. These facts will increase your knowledge of the rocks.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

The Boise State University Isotope Geology Laboratory (IGL ... along with supporting rock preparation, mineral separations, and optical & electron beam imaging laboratories in the Department of ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

Red Rocks geology: How the world’s only acoustically perfect natural amphitheater was formed This year’s show will feature Nightmare On Rezz Street for the first time since 2022 and the third ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...