Geology in the News

Links provided by Joshua Contois, Marion Le Voyer, Andrea Lubawy, Rod Nenner, Ken Rock, Harold Tuchfeld, and Bob Williams

3/26/2025: See the Stunning Sapphire Ring Belonging to a Medieval Bishop That Just Sold at Auction

3/24/2025: Curiosity rover cracked open a rock and may have settled the 'life on Mars' debate

3/24/2025: A Steaming-Hot Volcanic Vent Has Opened Up in Yellowstone

3/22/2025: https://www.earth.com/news/mystery-microbes-burrowed-into-rock-millions-of-years-ago/

3/21/2025: A Lunar Lander’s Busy Day: Eclipse Photos and Rock Collecting

3/21/2025: What are the pink mystery rocks scattered across northeast Kansas?

3/19/2025: Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space

3/18/2025: ‘Wear and Tear’: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Wheels Show Remarkable Resilience After 11 Years on Mars

3/18/2025: Nasa releases first high-def images of sunset on the moon

3/9/2025: The Oscars: Diamonds are Still King, and the Lapel Pin is Proving its Sticking Power!

3/6/2025: Video shows 'lavanado' erupt at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano: 'Biggest one I've seen'

USGS live streaming view of the eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera, looking east

3/5/2025: Unburied treasure: Rover researchers find unexpected minerals on Mars that hint at possibility of ancient life

3/4/2025: World’s Oldest Asteroid Crater Found in Australia

3/3/2025: Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?

2/28/2025: Archaeologists Discovered a 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Gold Mine—and Another World Around It

2/24/2025: Diamonds in full color: Smithsonian unveils rainbow gem collection with rare red star