As NASA’s MAVEN mission heads toward Mars, scientists say they’ve discovered highly unusual, light-colored rock on the mostly dark-toned Red Planet – and two teams have dueling ideas of what such pale ...

IT is well known that authigenic orthoclase is present in fossil sediments of marine origin. In the course of my studies of fragments from gabbro and anorthosites in a core taken in 1948 by the ...

It turns out rocks can be hurled much higher from the Martian surface than previously believed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.