Scientists studying the remains of people who died in the devastating Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried the ancient city of ...

New research recently uncovered spatter cones on Mars, meaning that the planet had volcanoes similar to Earth's at one point.

Tapping into History or Waking a Sleeping Giant In a groundbreaking venture, an international team of scientists is set to ...

Deep below the Earth's crust, molten rock rises and falls, driving the movement of tectonic plates on our planet's surface — and for some time, researchers have debated whether the moon also has ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a ...

A lava delta is created when molten rock reaches a flat area and spreads out in multiple directions like a fan. After this lava delta collapsed, new lava spewed from the tube like a fire hose into ...

According to the discovery made, a layer of molten rock might have been hidden beneath the solid surface of the moon. This discovery could significantly shift our understanding of celestial neighbors.

A volcano is a mountain that opens downward to a reservoir of molten rock below the surface of the earth. Unlike most mountains, which are pushed up from below, volcanoes are vents through which ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock feature. They form when molten rock cools below the surface of the Earth. Join Isla and Connor as they explore igneous rock landscape features at Traprain Law ...