While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

Researchers believe that peculiar rock formations observed by NASA's Spirit rover in Gusev Crater, and more recently by Perseverance in Jezero Crater, are the results of some catastrophic explosive ...

A hike around the lovely Shaddox Hollow Trail at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area leads to forest, streams and rock. Lots and lots of rock. So much rock that a self-guided geology tour now lets ...

Curiosity is exploring Mars’ boxwork terrain, where ridges and hollows may have formed from cementation and erosion. The ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into the young Earth, spraying debris that coalesced to form the moon, many scientists think. Some remnants of that object, called Theia, exist ...

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once ...