NASA's Curiosity rover explores a sulfate region in Mars' Gale Crater in August 2022, with upper Mount Sharp in the distance. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of iron carbonate, could ...

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate minerals ...

Stable isotope analysis suggests that, before Roman aqueducts, residents of the city may have soaked in dirty water ...

Researchers from the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, working with international collaborators, have identified a rare phosphorus-bearing carbonate mineral - bradleyite - ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and ...

UK researchers have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate were stabilised over the past 24 million years. When CO2 levels became ...