On April 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order aimed at fast-tracking deep-sea mining.

On February 18, contamination in the Kafue river, Zambia, led to a mass death of fish. Its water turned a deathly gray and ...

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University students who are pursuing careers in geoscience and energy engineering will have access ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

A rock containing many smaller round stones could indicate that there was once a large amount of liquid water on the Red ...

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera -- located in ...

Yellowstone's supervolcano appears to have a magma cap that vents pressure and reduces the chances of a massive eruption happening anytime soon.

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic properties that make it a promising material ...

Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic properties that make it a promising material ...