Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually ...

New findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest that ancient volcanic activity on Mars may have created conditions capable of supporting life. A team led by Texas A&M researcher Michael Tice has ...

Meet ignimbrite, a volcanic rock found here on Earth and potentially on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...

Unusual rocks discovered on a remote mountainside have alerted scientists to the dangers posed by a little-studied type of volcano. Unusual rocks discovered on a remote mountainside have alerted ...

Martian meteorites are mostly volcanic in origin, but how they are related to one another and where they come from on Mars have been enduring scientific puzzles. These meteorites can be found in the ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can ...

An international team of researchers unearthed the previously unknown form of basalt after drilling through the Pacific ocean floor. Peridotite is composed mostly of greenish magnesium-iron-silicate ...

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...