A new NASA study suggests that if life ever existed on Mars, the longest-lasting habitats were most likely below the Red Planet’s surface. A new interpretation of years of mineral-mapping data, from ...

Rivers discharge a constant supply of sediment into the world's oceans. This sediment is largely composed of various clay minerals - the products of rock weathering - and organic compounds of plant ...

Clay minerals are a major constituent of the earth's surface and are mainly found in the sediments of lakes, rivers and oceans. The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo mission has revealed clay-type minerals at the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa that appear to have been delivered by a spectacular collision with an ...

Scientists had earlier concluded there must have been water or active hydrothermal systems at some point in Martian history because clay is formed by the interaction of water with volcanic rock. The ...

RENO, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EP Engineered Clays Corporation, an affiliate of EP Minerals, LLC, a worldwide leader in engineered products derived from industrial minerals, announced today that it has ...