A project by Icelandic firm s.ap arkitektar envisions the year 2150, when buildings and cities made from lava could be a ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

Natural phenomena never cease to amaze people as they unfold. The advance in the study of this type of situation makes the ...

A volcano once dormant in southwest Iceland erupted Wednesday for the 12th time in four years as nearby resort towns were evacuated as a safety precaution.

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

A new volcanic fissure opened in southwest Iceland early Wednesday, sending lava and smoke into the air but sparing roads and airports. The Icelandic Meteorological Office confirmed the eruption near ...

MMORPG tradition has ended in quasi-success after 3 years in Middle-earth, as a group of intrepid low-level Hobbits ...

Deep within the Earth’s mantle, rhythmic pulses of hot lava are emerging on the surface, offering a rare glimpse into the forces driving the creation of a new ocean. These pulses, coming from a ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

Common sense tells us to run from molten lava flowing from active volcanoes. But MIT professors J. Jih, Cristina Parreño Alonso, and Skylar Tibbits ...