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During the solstices, thousands gather at Stonehenge on the Salisbury Plain in England to celebrate the monument's astronomical alignment. The focal point of these festivities is the Altar Stone—the six-ton sandstone slab that lies flat at the center of Stonehenge.

Nevada is becoming a major producer of lithium, thanks to topography, climate, and geologic serendipity.

A new study of sapphires found in volcanic fields in Germany reveals that these beautiful blue stones form where magma and rocks from Earth's crust mix.

"When everyone else was pulling back, we were leaning in," says Liam Mallon, president of Exxon's production division.

Rock West Composites announces that this month it has delivered three 9 ft. by 9 ft. assembly fixtures that are part of the Precision Assembly Space Structure...

Oil and gas are two of the most important natural resources, contributing to over half of the world's energy supply. Reserves of these resources are thus, of high economic and strategic interest.

The mining burden of new energy technologies is smaller than that of fossil fuels, according to a new report.

The Hope and Koh-i-Noor diamonds—two of the most famous Golconda diamonds—may have come from southern India's Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, according to a...

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rock The Street, Wall Street (RTSWS), opens the world of financial and investment math to high school girls, this month launches its...

To mark the 20th anniversary of ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) team is announcing the upcoming release of a global color mosaic of Mars that is unparalleled in its accuracy of color information and provides insight into the diverse composition of surface materials.

Shale oil exploration has rapidly expanded since the beginning of the 21st century, particularly in North America. Since 2010, the production of marine shale oil has increased at an average rate of more than 25% annually, making the US the global leader in production with total recoverable resources pegged at approximately 20.7 billion tons. Developing shale oil resources has significant potential to shape energy…

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The high-profile faith-based film, "Christmas Eve" will start shooting soon. The film will be directed by Tim Chey which will be his 17th...

Turns out there was a lot of burying and melting going on at the beginning of the world.

Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed—a revised origin story that doesn't require the start of plate tectonics or any external factor to explain their formation. Instead, the findings published last week in Nature Communications rely solely on internal geological forces that occurred within oceanic plateaus that formed during the first few hundred million…

Global warming is not solely a modern-day occurrence but has been a prominent feature of Earth's geological history for millennia. One such event occurred approximately 40 million years ago, lasting ~400,000 years, known as the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO).

UNDO has been awarded a contract to provide Microsoft with its first carbon removal via enhanced rock weathering (ERW).

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This month Rock West Composites (RWC) delivered a large aperture space telescope structure to its customer, EOI Space. Once integrated...