Rockhounders can find all kinds of gemstones across the United States, but there are certain places where geodes can be found ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

Thundereggs look like regular rocks from the outside, but contain intricate and colorful mineral patterns inside — often made ...

Stone has been the backbone of British and Irish construction for millennia, from Stonehenge to Georgian townhouses, and its relevance has never diminished. In contemporary construction projects ...

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland formed ~60 million years ago from cooling lava. The Wave in Arizona, USA, is Navajo Sandstone from the Jurassic period. Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand formed ~60 ...

There are many mountains in the world that need no introduction, and among them is one that has a very peculiar natural shape. Devils Tower, called Mato Tipila (Home of the Bear) by the Lakota Indians ...

Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ...

Balin Miller, a noted mountain and rock climber, fell to his death this week at the El Capitan rock formation in California's Yosemite National Park, his mother said. The 23-year-old's death was ...

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Crack open a piece of volcanic rock that formed roughly 2.05 billion years ago, and you might expect nothing but minerals, and certainly not living microbes. However, scientists tend to think ...

The individual, whose identity and gender has not yet been made public, died on July 24 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was ...