Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds known as CLIPPIRs (Cullinan-like, Large, ...

A complete guide to oil and gas mineral rights: ownership, leasing, valuation, inheritance tax rules and the scams every ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the first clear evidence of a powerful sandstorm that swept across Mars billions of years ...

A tractor spreads crushed white rock on a green hill, leaving a plume of dust in its wake. Scientists believe that enhanced ...

Perpetual Resources has completed its first technical milestone at the Nevada Scheelite tungsten project since last month’s ...

Spectacular marine fossils tell the story of the long-gone Western Interior Seaway and the planet’s past aquatic life ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest to the Martian macromolecular carbon. “It suggests the carbon emplacement ...

Last year, geologists dated the crater in Western Australia at 3.47 billion years old, which was disputed by other experts. Now, they've revised the estimate to 3.02 billion years old—but some still a ...

For years, Mars has felt like our best shot at a second home. It’s the most Earth-like planet nearby with carved riverbeds, dry lake bottoms, ice caps at the poles.

Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young Earth. The collision happened at a time when the planet looked very ...

Curtin University researchers use innovative techniques to date three-billion-year-old impact crater in Western Australia’s Pilbara region ...

A study claims that the North Pole Dome crater in Western Australia was caused by an asteroid strike 3 billion years ago, but other researchers dispute the proposed age ...