The last time anyone set foot on the moon, in 1972, astronauts plunged metal tubes into the lunar ground. They captured soil and rock and then sealed off the precious extraterrestrial material. One of ...
Scientists in an expedition to the Mid-Atlantic ocean ridge lifted almost a mile of precious rocks from beneath an exotic feature linked to life’s possible beginning. By William J. Broad Researchers ...
When Jan Graham was a child, her father worked for the National Park Service and the family traveled a lot as her father’s job took her from park to park. Along the way she started to collect rocks ...