With new data coming in from Mars, scientists have a new theory about why the planet is red. What does this mean for whether ...

Scientists have uncovered that iron oxides, previously thought to trap phosphorus, actually help convert it into a ...

Iron oxide minerals are found in rocks around the globe. Some are magnetic, and some of them rust—especially when exposed to ...

In the March 4, 2025, online issue of the journal Geology, Utah State University geoscientists Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault ...

New details have emerged in the death of My Chemical Romance’s former drummer, Bob Bryar. Months after his passing, an ...

Researchers in Sweden report a green alternative to reduce reliance on mining graphite, the raw source behind the "wonder ...

The study, led by Adomas Valantinas of Brown University and published in Nature Communications, has confirmed the real reason ...

The new research from the European Space Agency is providing new insights that question what people previously believed about ...

Mars’s signature red hue may not be due to hematite, as previously believed, but rather to ferrihydrite — an iron oxide that requires water to form. Using a combination of spacecraft data and ...

Mars is covered in a fine dust that’s rich in iron oxides. You might know these compounds better as rust, the same stuff that forms when you leave an old bicycle out in the rain too long. On Earth, ...

Scientists previously believed that its rust-red colour came from dry iron ... and oxygen in the atmosphere on Mars, it created iron oxide. Martian winds, then, carried the iron oxide across ...