Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

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Rock and soil samples at Durupınar Formation contain marine deposits and seafood remnants, supporting ancient ship theories.

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New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

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NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Sweet Spot covers 1,165 hectares of Lower and Middle Aldridge Formation rocks belonging to the Meso-Proterozoic Belt-Purcell Supergroup, an ancient basin sequence of sedimentary rocks known to ...

Formed in 2004, Australia's Wolfmother has released six studio albums, most recently 2021's Rock Out. Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale has been the only consistently true member of a band that ...

An early Holocene sea-level curve based on data from the North Sea reveals two phases of accelerated sea-level rise owing to meltwater from the North American and Antarctic ice sheets.