This photo by NASA's Curiosity rover shows the raw image of Mars that includes a spoon-shaped rock at the lower center. Curiosity took this photo with its Mastcam camera on Aug. 30, 2015, the ...

Nature doesn’t follow blueprints, and sometimes the result is strange enough to stop you in your tracks. Around the world, ...

Mushroom Rock State Park was near the edge of the vast inland sea, and beach sand helped form the rocks you can see today. For those into geology, they're a part of the Dakota Formation.

In sedimentary formations, hogbacks are formed when the formation is tilted, like the Flatirons, and there is a softer layer of rock underneath a hard layer on the top. The softer layer is eroded more ...

Join the hunt for alien-looking rock formations as CNET's Amanda Kooser scours the Mars image archives, and comes away with a new appreciation for the Red Planet.

One of the most famous Google Earth illusions, the Badlands Guardian was discovered in 2006 by Lynn Hickox at 50°0'38.20"N 110°6'48.32"W. While the chief and his headdress are all natural ...

Forget the Hard Rock Cafe, this hard rock is the latest tourist attraction. Men and women are visiting this thousand-year-old phallic formation with hopes to improve their sexual performance and pa… ...

A formation of many beautiful rock layers has recently been discovered at Ghenh Da Dia in the central coastal province of Phu Yen. Scientists described it as a masterpiece in stone gifted by nature ...

The park's main attraction, Raven Rock, is a 150-foot tall rock formation overlooking the Cape Fear River. Visitors can enjoy diverse wildlife, fishing and paddling along the Cape Fear River.