Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Lundy often is known as “the rock guy” due to his participation in educational outreach, local rock and mineral organizations ...

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

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

Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Underneath Mars’ dusty façade, rocks like Kenmore hold chemical time capsules that can reveal ancient planetary processes—if ...

As simple pleasures are gay and hiking is gay, it feels easy to declare that the sport of rockhounding is also a gay activity ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum is expected to move to downtown Appleton this fall. It opened in Menasha in 2001.