Magma becomes lava when it rises up to the Earth’s surface, like when the Nyiragongo volcano erupted in the Democratic ...

A study recently published in Nature Geosciencehas solved the mystery of a 60-million-year-old volcanic trail stretching from ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world's most promising new deposits ...

While many rocks don’t burn, some of them do. It depends on what the rocks are made of – and that’s related to how they were formed. Rocks that burn when they get heated up are combusting. This means ...

A massive "superstructure" of igneous rock lurking below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, east of the Solomon Islands, has long puzzled scientists. The structure, dubbed the Melanesian Border Plateau ...

Martian mudstones contain features that NASA says are the "clearest sign of life" yet on Mars, according to new findings from ...

Scientists got a surprise when NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover began examining rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater in spring of 2021: Because the crater held a lake billions of years ago, they had ...