In Andy Weir’s bestselling novel The Martian, brought to the big screen in 2015, NASA has already landed astronauts on Mars ...

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?

Figuring out anything from 115 million years ago is a challenge. But realizing that a tsunami happened is even more ...

Some people have rocks in their head. Others have hearts of stone. And then there is a recent visitor to Ventura.

Curiosity was launched in November 2011 and continues to explore Mars. The final image below is of a sedimentary rock formation with a “popcorn” texture, discovered by Perseverance.

At the summit of Mount Everest, for example, there is the sedimentary rock limestone known as the "Qomolangma Limestone". Within it are several fossilized marine creatures from the Ordovician ...

The Stibium occurrence is hosted in quartz diorite intrusive rocks and hornfels sedimentary rock over an approximately 800m long by 400m wide zone, and remains open. A 2,500kg bulk sample was ...

This method involves grinding up the sedimentary rock sample and separating out hundreds of sand-sized zircon crystals that were deposited within the sediment. The U-Pb ratios of the grains are ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car ...

In a recent study in the journal Sedimentologika, for example, researchers documented a new kind of sedimentary rock made from coastal slag deposits in the U.K. This rock follows other formations ...

How did these rocks form? In the early 20th century, some vocal geologists posited that sedimentary rocks morphed into granite through some cryptic chemical process. But experiments beginning in ...