An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The ...

A new study suggests the planet’s iconic domes owe their strange shape to both thick lava and a flexible surface.

Mountain interiors with their consistent temperature and humidity also provide suitable environmental conditions for preserving the conventional high explosives (used to compress the fissile material) ...

Perseverance is racing through its fastest science mission yet, uncovering ancient rocks that hint at Mars’ violent, watery ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

A separate theory suggests that the rock formation could be an igneous rock which was formed when lava or magma cooled down millions, or possibly billions, of years ago. Ms Dean explained that t ...

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock ...

Due to their buoyancy, they tend to accumulate at the top of the magma chamber," he said. "But if there's a channel, they can escape to the surface." A high-silica type of igneous rock called ...

(Igneous rocks can form deep underground from magma or from volcanic activity at the surface, and they are excellent record-keepers—particularly because mineral crystals within them preserve ...

The igneous rock intruded into the Cheyenne Belt ... Webber said that the singular “X” is actually a cross-section of a “thin sheet” of intrusive magma called a dike. “Dikes are typically thin, ...

To better understand magma supplies deep beneath volcanoes ... which reflects the proportion of igneous rocks that have solidified in the crust (intrusive) to the proportion that erupted at ...

Large igneous provinces may release ... But over time, the magma warms the crust enough that the surrounding rock flows more easily, making it harder to build up enough pressure for a surface ...