Test your rock & mineral smarts—are you a Rock Star? Think you know rocks and minerals? Take the Science Trek quiz! Test your smarts on gold, salt, Earth’s oldest rocks, gemstones on Mars, and the ...

Scientists have come across strange new rocks that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents, Newsweek reports — a shocking sign of the sheer permeation of plastic pollution into the ...

Scientists and engineers don’t always dance to the beat of the same drum, especially when it comes to “hard rock” science — the study of intact, crystallized rocks on other planets, which may provide ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains ...

The most accessible part of the earth’s interior is at the ocean’s bottom, where the crust is thin. Project Mohole, the U.S. attempt to reach the boundary layer between the earth’s crust and mantle by ...

A new study of carbon-based molecules in a Martian rock offers new hints about the possibility that the red planet once ...

Discover how rocks, minerals & the rock cycle change your world. Join the Science Trek team to explore rocks and minerals! Discover how the Earth formed, the three types of rocks, the rock cycle, and ...

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 ...

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ringing Rocks Park features unique diabase boulders that produce bell-like tones when struck. Formed 200 million years ago and fractured by Ice Age freeze-thaw cycles, ...

Scientists working with NASA’s Perseverance rover reported an unusual striped rock discovered on the slopes of Jezero Crater, ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...