Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

It’ll be a snap to identify gemstones once Robert Downs finishes his library of spectral fingerprints for all the Earth’s minerals. Downs is almost halfway there. So far, the associate professor of ...

Whether you're an avid rock collector or simply interested in the world around you — this new tool is designed to make ...

Planet Earth is a unique place: it's full of unusual things happening every moment. Right now as you're watching this video, ...

The phrase “eat dirt” has never been complimentary, but there sure are some tasty-looking rocks at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum on Washington Street. The museum’s “Banquet of Rocks” display ...

A spelunker licks a salt rock in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel. British-Polish geologist Jan Zalasiewicz won the Ig Noble Prize in the ...

WYOMING, Mich. — What looks like just a rock to most people can hold much more meaning for collectors. The rock can be a story, a science lesson, or even a childhood memory. The Indian Mounds Rock and ...

Most people do their rock hunting during the day, but you can't find "Yooperlites" until the sun goes down. Yooperlites are rocks that fluoresce in the dark under ultraviolet light. They became known ...

Before the federal government shut down on Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said it would team up with Mountain ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to t History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 graduate of ...

Section 1. Background. The United States has a core national security and economic interest in maintaining leadership in deep sea science and technology and seabed mineral resources. The United States ...