The Galloway Hoard, one of the most significant Viking-era treasures ever to emerge in Scotland, has provided yet another gift, seven years after it was discovered and just in time for the festive ...

Examples of Cumberlandite and titanomagnitolivinite will be on display at the John Hay Library through August 2026.

A stunning gold-wrapped jar crafted out of rock crystal has finally been uncovered in its entirety, revealing a Latin inscription that might provide new clues about its mysterious origins. Researchers ...

Neolithic people sprinkled the crystals over burials. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent ...

Researchers discovered a rare mineral hidden inside the teeth of a chiton, a large mollusk found along rocky coastlines. Before this strange surprise, the iron mineral, called santabarbaraite, only ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Two of the sites targeted - Fountainhead SSSI, near New Cumnock in East Ayrshire and Talnotry Mine SSSI, near Newton Stewart ...

Wadi Lawayni is a remote desert valley in the interior Al-Hajar Mountains of Oman, east of Saudi Arabia. A visitor gets there by following a lonely dirt road that dwindles to tire tracks running ...