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

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

There's a Croatian volcanic island which is still on the move. Uninhabited, it has been under special protection for over 70 ...

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

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

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

Cambridge scientists discovered that thin, weak zones in Earth’s plates helped spread Iceland’s mantle plume across the North ...

A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...

One of America’s finest memoirists, in photos and in prose, is at the peak of her powers in “Art Work”— and wondering if her ...

What do the rumblings of Iceland’s volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland’s western coast and the spectacular basalt columns of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern ...

The scale of excavation is staggering. Locals allege that every night, dozens of trucks ferry murum worth lakhs of rupees out ...