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Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

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For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the ...

A single metallic boulder sitting in an ancient Martian riverbed is forcing scientists to rethink what they thought they knew ...

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In southern Bahia, there are outcrops of migmatites and granulites in the Jequitinhonha Complex, which is part of the northern portion of the Araçuaí Orogen. Migmatites (garnet-cordierite diatexite) ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a large piece of a type of ...

Rocks are having a moment, at least the ones "sold" at Anthropologie are. In the last few weeks, the clothing and home goods store been going viral over a prank that continues to spread across social ...

Scientists on NASA's Perseverance mission made a surprising discovery about the composition of rock in Jezero Crater, one that will help them get a better idea of when water existed on Mars, and ...