The find is so important because it appears to come from Earth-like processes. “Geologically-speaking, it’s quite hard to make granite without water and plate tectonics, which is why we really ...

Four billion years ago, Mars might have looked a lot more like Earth than we thought – not on the surface, where rusty red ...

The word ‘granite’ comes from the Latin ‘granum’ meaning grain. Granite induced the Earth’s crust and it wasn’t until after the glacial periods that the rock was exposed. For centuries ...