Mineralogy

Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University

Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University

The moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mystery

Can the ethnographic museum be reinvented?

NASA researchers are scrutinizing rocks and dirt brought to Earth from the asteroid Bennu

Earth planning date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 As documented in a previous blog last week, we continue to juggle power constraints as we focus on analyzing our newest drilled sample on Mars: "Mammoth Lakes 2." Today, the star of the show is a planned dropoff to SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite) and evolved […]

There is a 70-80% chance that the Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake will occur in the next 30 years. It is predicted to cause more extensive damage than the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and fatalities may exceed 320,000.

Zealandia, Greater Adria, and Argoland had all but vanished until sleuthing geologists tracked them down. Some of these landmasses aren't lost, but simply hidden.

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for analysis. Scientists are optimistic...

The peculiar material even features in the jewelry of Tutankhamun.

Meteorites can get pricey, but they're not the most expensive material. AP Photo/Thibault CamusAfter a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles...

The "law of increasing functional information" says that complex systems in nature evolve to become more complex.

What do Mozart, Christopher Columbus and J.P. Morgan have in common? It turns out they all have minerals named after them. A new member of this exclusive club has recently been inducted: Mercouri Kanatzidis, materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and professor at Northwestern University.

Spacecraft named for pioneering UChicago scientist ventures closer to sun than humanity has ever been

It's becoming clear that LK-99 is a funky magnet with potential.

A 3,000-year-old iron arrowhead found in Switzerland was likely made from a meteor, A study by the Natural History Museum Bern has determined.

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Underwater volcanoes on the Earth's crust are active contributors of many different elements to the oceanic environment. Hence, they play an important role in biogeochemical and chemosynthetic cycles of the ocean. Although there have been many studies on high-temperature hydrothermal systems in the mid-ocean ridge—a series of underwater volcanoes that trace the edges of the different oceanic plates—there is little…

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich have proposed a new scenario for the emergence of the first building blocks for life on Earth, roughly 4 billion years ago.