If you’ve ever studied geography, looked at fossils in a museum, or even looked up at a craggy cliffside or a steep mountain, you’ll know that rocks usually take millions of years to form. However, ...

The Earth’s ancient continents were not fixed but drifted slowly over millions of years. This movement reshaped oceans and mountain ranges. By studying magnetic minerals in rocks, scientists can trace ...

After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there. Those stones are changing what we know about the birth of solar systems.

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In the foothills of a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover found stunning new evidence of an ancient lake in the form of rocks etched with the ripples of waves — and the telltale signs appeared in ...

Natural erosion finally took its toll on Darwin's Arch, a famous rock formation off the coast of the remote Galápagos Islands, forcing the top of the archway to collapse into the Pacific Ocean on ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions that shot jets of hot ash, rock and gas skyward are the likely source of a mysterious Martian rock formation, a new study finds. The new finding could add to scientists' ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: David Hutt via Alamy An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson ...

The rock cycle naturally takes thousands to millions of years, but scientists just identified a new form of rock that cements in under four decades. Researchers believe the natural cements found in ...

Exploration and production companies should target traps above Potwar basin’s Lockhart formation to increase oil and gas production. Source-rock sedimentology for Potwar basin, host to most of ...