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What are the odds of drilling a two-inch hole and hitting a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur bone over 760 feet below a museum parking lot? Statistically speaking, it’s nearly impossible. As Denver ...
A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where ...
The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.
An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The elements emerge when ocean islands form.
NASA is getting excited about a special rock that its Perseverance rover has just scooped up from the surface of Mars.
NASA's Perseverance rover has collected a unique rock sample named 'Silver Mountain' from Mars' Jezero Crater, marking a significant milestone. This sample is sealed in a titanium tube for return ...
The Kansas Geological Survey Drill Core Library is one of the largest public core depositories in the United States. The library houses thousands of rock cores – rock samples collected when ...
Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa, an area known for its rich ...
Now, researchers have found living microbes in a rock sample dated to be 2 billion years old. “We didn’t know if 2-billion-year-old rocks were habitable.