Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on the farm, my brothers, sisters and I had fun gathering all sorts of rocks.

A chunk of rock collected in Osaka in the early 1990s spent roughly 30 years sitting in storage at a local natural history museum — unremarkable, unprepared, waiting. When researchers recently ...

Scientists are on edge as they wait for NASA to answer two of the most consequential questions in Mars exploration. Where on the red planet will the Perseverance rover collect its final rock samples?

Rick tell's us how we can get involved in rock collecting.

Rick Koval show us what rocks to collect for a story on minerals.