Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing ...

A nother day, another step closer to finding out whether life once existed on Mars. A new study suggests Mars rocks collected ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of sedimentary rock made of debris from slag heaps, formed in the geological blink of ...

The model Kite’s team built was unique in that it captured evolution of the Martian landscape and climate over an extremely ...

This link to water is why alien sedimentary rocks are rare. But they do exist. Certain asteroids, like Ryugu and Bennu, are rubble piles, essentially a strange space conglomerate—a type of ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around ...

"Sedimentary rocks are important because they were transported by water, deposited into a standing body of water and subsequently modified by chemistry that involved liquid water on the surface of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has found Martian rocks altered by liquid water on the floor of Jezero crater and collected them for return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission. They ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

Martian rocks that could contain signs of life have been collected by NASA 's Perseverance rover. The ancient samples were altered by water that flowed over the Red Planet when it was a water ...

Sedimentary rock is formed by the accumulation of minerals and other material. As rocks at the earth's surface are broken down, or “weathered,” the sediment is moved by forces such as water and wind ...