Samples returned from the moon by a Chinese mission have been found to contain exotic igneous rock types associated with material ejected by tremendous impacts. The exotic "clasts" were found in ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Perseverance is racing through its fastest science mission yet, uncovering ancient rocks that hint at Mars’ violent, watery ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...

The Perseverance rover collected samples from sites on the crater floor and identified igneous rocks that, once dated on Earth, will provide a timeline for formation of magma and flow of water on ...

(Igneous rocks can form deep underground from ... enough for Perseverance to seal and store the serpentine-laden rock sample. Eight days later, the rover had no issues sealing its third rim ...

The rock sample was taken from the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), a rocky intrusion in northeastern South Africa which formed when magma slowly cooled below the Earth's surface. The BIC covers an ...

techniques is now celebrated as the optimal method for determining when igneous rocks formed," the report said. The technique involves measuring the decay of various isotopes within a rock sample.