These carefully-patterned rock arrangements look like something out of a meditation garden, or environmental art. But they are actually the product of simple computer algorithms expressed through a 3D ...

Enormous polygon patterns in rock lie dozens of meters below Mars’ surface, ground-penetrating radar data suggest. Similar patterns develop on the surface in Earth’s polar regions when icy sediments ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Climate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail ...

Some of the best patterns can be seen in strata, layers of rock that have been formed by layer upon layer of rock or soil millions of years ago. These layers have become exposed by erosion from the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered unusually widespread honeycomb-like rock patterns in Gale Crater alongside preserved organic molecules, including compounds linked to life’s building blocks.

The volcanic sheet rocks could be 6.5 crore years old Hyderabad: Historians have found differential weathering volcanic rock in Varthamanuru of Bazar Hatnur in Adilabad district. The volcanic sheet ...