Astronomers have discovered never-seen-before rock types, made up of unusual ratios of minerals, within the remains of alien worlds ripped apart by their dying host stars. The research suggests that ...

A new space station experiment is testing whether would-be space miners can enlist some very small potential accomplices to do their grunt work. The experiment, called BioRock, hitched a ride to the ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...