The film also discusses how various natural processes, including the remains of marine life and plant materials, contribute to the formation of sedimentary rocks and their layered structure.

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Scientists have found unusual, blueberry-like rocks on Mars that could give us more insights into its geological history.

A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation ... nitrogen cycle in ancient stromatolites, i.e., sedimentary rocks of organic origin. The ancient rocks, which ...

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million years if we capture just 0.1 percent of it.

The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

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

( If successfully implemented, our field protocol for preparation and optical microscopy of rock samples will help to ...