Marcia Bjornerud sits in the basement of a soon-to-be-demolished building at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. The sole faculty member remaining in a depleted geology department, she sorts through ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...

Using carefully selected terrestrial rocks, engineers try to figure out how to work with crumbly rocks like the one the rover encountered on its first sampling attempt. Using carefully selected ...