The largest Mars meteorite ever found on Earth was sold at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday for $5.3 million.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The meteorite was discovered in Niger in November 2023 and is 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars recovered on ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that made an unlikely voyage to Earth will be available to the highest bidder at Sotheby's ...

On Wednesday, Sotheby’s will auction off a chunk of rock believed to have originated on Mars for an anticipated 2 to 4 ...

The Black Sabbath frontman and "Prince of Darkness" died at 76, his family announced: "He was with his family and surrounded ...

X-ray diffraction to obtain high-resolution maps of intra-granular stress in the sandstone. By combining stress mapping with stepwise compression, the team observed increasing stress heterogeneity ...

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 ...

A chunk of the Martian surface that at some point crashed into Earth sold Wednesday, July 16 to an anonymous bidder for a record $5.3 million.

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...