Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

Quaise Energy is deploying futuristic technology and banking on Trump’s support for accessing subterranean heat.

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the ...

Basalt velvet geckos live on “exposed, piled, black basalt rocks,” the study said. Hoskin saw them “active at night.” When “disturbed,” the geckos retreated “into deep crevices and h ...

A new method to detect life in ancient rocks could help analyze Mars samples and determine if life once existed on the red ...

A project at the University of Tokyo has now applied a photothermal optical spectroscopy technique to the task, investigating whether it could detect evidence of living microbes while satisfying these ...