Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

Granite and other rocks made from recycled magma Igneous rocks, which form from magma (which is called lava when it erupts on the surface), aren’t anything special in our solar system.

Two different testing methods have revealed that rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada date back ...

The main surprise, Shuster said, is that the rocks collected from four sites on the floor of Jezero Crater are igneous cumulate rocks -- that is, they were formed by the cooling of molten magma ...

Sedimentary rocks are primarily found in water and are formed by the clumping of materials, metamorphic have been literally morphed due to immense pressure and heat, and igneous rocks are volcanic ...

For instance, volcanic blasts produce plumes of ash that occasionally bury organisms. Before their bodies are burned away by the torrents of magma, that are spewed onto the surface of the planet, they ...