rocks

NASA to open moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions.

Researchers say they’ve found the quarries where Stonehenge’s rocks came from, but the stones likely were used elsewhere first and moved.

“Diamond formation in the deep Earth—the very deep Earth—may be a more common process than we thought,” says Johns Hopkins University geochemist Dimitri A. Sverjensky.

After finding high-tech solutions to halt suicide bombings and rockets, tech-savvy Israel is struggling with the resurgence of a weapon dating back to David and Goliath: the hurled rock

Scientists have discovered concrete-like rock in a dormant volcano in Italy, and say it may explain why the Romans were able to invent the legendary compound used to construct the Pantheon and the Coliseum.

Paleobiologist Richard Norris and his team have solved the mystery behind the sailing stones in California’s Death Valley.

A few years ago a Russian newspaper reported on a rock, thousands of years old, with what looked like a nut and bolt embedded within it. But this strange specimen isn’t the only one of its kind.

They are rock stars in Japan, but their roots are in Canada. And their successful fusion of Canadian/Japanese pop rock is so well loved that the Government of Japan named them the “Goodwill Ambassadors” of the 80th anniversary of Japan-Canada relations this year.