Test your rock & mineral smarts—are you a Rock Star? Think you know rocks and minerals? Take the Science Trek quiz! Test your smarts on gold, salt, Earth’s oldest rocks, gemstones on Mars, and the ...

What is the difference between a rock and a stone? What is a rock? What is a stone? There is a difference. Find out what it is. Major Funding by the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation and Idaho ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

There would be no bright and colorful fireworks without rocks and minerals. A firework is produced by launching a shell containing fuel and a color mix high into the air, where it explodes. This ...

Every morning on WASP-94A b, clouds made of vaporized rock and metal condense out of the atmosphere. Every evening, they’re ...

Dazzling gems and minerals alongside rare stones and rocks will all be on display at the 47th Annual Gem and Mineral Show. Rock collectors and enthusiasts can browse through them all this weekend!

KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- Stepping into Rockhound Rock Shop, visitors are transported to another world. There’s a seemingly never-ending cascade of rooms in the Galesburg shop, each with a different ...

Assistant Researcher at the KGS Olivia Jones cuts into the core extracted from a well in Lyon County on July 9, 2024. Below the surface of Lyon County, there are layers of rock and coal from hundreds ...

Deondre Smith Jr., 9, and his brother Devonne, 7, searched for their favorite rock Friday among thousands for sale at the opening day of the Roxy Ann Gem & Mineral Show in southern Oregon’s Central ...

Ancient rocks on the Greek island of Crete reveal a 130-million-year tectonic journey, tracing deep subduction, and slow ...