The Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands, has been erupting since mid-September, and recently the volcano's violent eruptions have sent lava pouring into the Atlantic ocean, ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey ...

One of the largest canyons in our Solar System carved its way through several layers of ancient volcanic eruption debris, a recent study reports. Valles Marineris is a titanic network of deep cracks ...

In a remote, barren part of northern Kenya, a new pilot project will soon begin injecting CO2 more than 1,300 feet underground into volcanic rocks, where the greenhouse gas will also turn to stone. It ...

The Pilbara region of Western Australia offers stunningly strange vistas of volcanic rock and granite domes that feel reminiscent of an ancient world — and for a good reason. These arid mineral-rich ...

These rocks really shouldn't be there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The surprising discovery of volcanic, "igneous," rocks by ...

The Atlantic island of Bermuda has long looked like a geological magic trick, a lonely volcanic peak apparently hovering in ...

Above Wenatchee, spires reveal volcanic history in 44-million-year-old rock. High above the city of Wenatchee, Washington, a group of spires made of a unique type of 44-million-year-old rock tell the ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from volcanic activity, and researchers were curious to know how.

The notoriously large carbon footprint of cement production is a prime target for researchers looking to chip away at the problem of climate change, and we've seen how this could involve all kinds of ...