Millions of years of percolating water and geological dumb luck created Crystal Cave, an uncannily pristine chamber beneath a Lake Erie island. When a winemaker accidentally drilled into it, one of ...

Real geodes are handball-sized, hollow rocks that start out as bubbles in volcanic or sedimentary rock. Only when these inconspicuous round rocks are split in half by a geologist, do we get a chance ...

The geode of Pulpí is an 11-meter hollow ovoid with crystal-paneled walls. It is like those familiar couplets of stone interiors covered with bright crystallites, but so large that several people can ...

For just $10, you can be the jewel of the gem show, seated inside an amethyst geode that's 9 feet tall and 6 feet across. Oh, and since it's 6-feet-deep, they can also shut you inside the geode. This ...

Discovered in 1999 during mining operations in the Mina Rica (the Rich Mine) in Almeria, southeast Spain, the crystal geode of Pulpí hosts among the most beautiful crystals ever discovered. Even if ...

In an unusual image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare view of the celestial equivalent of a geode — a gas cavity carved by the stellar wind and intense ultraviolet radiation ...