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 ...

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 ...

Kyawthuite, a unique mineral, was discovered in Myanmar's Chaung-Gyi Valley in 2010 and recognized in 2015. The single known ...

VOLUMES 3 and 4 of this work complete what must be the most compendious hand book of petrography ever issued. In the first volume Johannsen gave an admirably illustrated account of rock textures and ...

On Aug. 31, the 1,610th sol of its mission, Perseverance captured an image of this rock, which looks like the head of a turtle coming out of its shell.” The Jet Propulsion Laboratory definition of ...

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

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

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

A Curtin University-led study has identified significant new potential to boost Australia’s niobium stocks. According to ...