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

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

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

Scientists have traced a 60-million-year volcanic trail from Iceland to Ireland to a deep mantle plume that shaped the North Atlantic.

Researchers were met with controversy for their initial claims, but dating isotopes of one metal that decayed into another showed that the igneous rock from northeastern Canada really was that old.

Cerro El Cono, a unique mountain, stands tall in Peru's Amazon. Its shape resembles a pyramid. Locals believe it is a sacred ...

Yao can adjust pore size and the rate at which he injects the CO 2 gas. A camera takes a picture every 30 seconds during the six-hour duration of each experiment. The results from the laboratory ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

This matters especially because volcanic rocks can be dated precisely. Unlike sedimentary rocks, which are built slowly over time from eroded bits of other rocks, igneous rocks lock in their ages ...