A detailed look at rocks and minerals, the essential building blocks of Earth’s crust. Rocks are naturally occurring solids ...

Geological forces such as pressure, temperature and time determine how elements form a rock or mineral, Cooper said. Even though graphite and diamond are both made of carbon, they form differently.

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Scientists studying Mars knew that sulfate minerals were a significant component of the surface, but were intrigued by a ...

The two new minerals were found in a slice of a meteorite recently discovered in Somalia, possibly offering clues on how the rocks are formed.

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The perfect storm of events led to the creation of a never-before-seen, naturally-occurring mineral.

We also learned that these minerals, formed when water evaporates, disappear when exposed to water once again – even with the tiny amount of water found in air.

“Early in my career, as I studied at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, I wanted to discover where and how minerals formed. Now, I develop geochemical tools to explore how minerals ...

The abundance of the mineral phases within the particles had been previously reported in another publication, which allowed for a comparison between the abundance of amino acids and minerals.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...