Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

NASA Satellite Captures Fascinating Images of an Ancient Lava Field in the Middle of the Sahara Desert Earth from space is a ...

The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

Videos shared on social media showed tourists running along a path on the side of the volcano as smoke billowed in the ...

Let’s take a closer look at these textures as they would be observed ... If these bubbles are trapped in the lava, the final solidified rock will have small holes, called vesicles, that are ...

Editor's note:Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Drew White, graduate ...

The rover also has a high-resolution camera system that provides detailed images of rock texture and structures ... volcanic history involving multiple lava flows with varying compositions.

Lava stone is a volcanic rock that's extracted from quarries before being cut ... And don't worry, though the texture may look cracked, your countertops will still feel smooth. Like any kitchen ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Perseverance rover in 2020 and recently, it has uncovered a distinct rock on the Martian surface, surprising scientists. This rock ...

One USGS webcam captured images of rock fragments flying over the volcano's rim. Another stunning image captured by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory showed whirlpool textures in the lava pond's ...

In a new paper, “Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater ... “We now know the mineral and rock chemistry and understand the textures, but the next step was to talk about how we ...