Scientists examine a large dike, formed from a sheet of magma that came to Earth’s surface millions of years ago during the Columbia River Basalt eruptions. These dikes fed magma to massive eruptions.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a rich source of precious metals inside a rare type of extinct volcano. As ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...

Scientists say they've discovered a 400-mile chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes beneath southern China. The volcanoes, the researchers claim, were likely formed when two major tectonic plates ...

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red ...

Mount Baker's glaciers unveil the secrets of three ancient volcanoes over millennia. Over thousands of years, the glaciers of Mount Baker carved away rock to reveal a surprising history: Not just one, ...

Volcanoes erupted beneath an ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago, far from any ice sheet on the Red Planet today, new evidence from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests. The research about ...

"Heat is funneled toward Antarctica, contributing to ice melt and sea level rise." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. New ...

(CNN) — Earthquakes, caused by the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates, have the potential to transform the face of the world. Now, for the first time, scientists have evidence that earthquakes can ...

An international team of geoscientists journeyed to northeastern Oregon, where massive volcanism has been linked with climate warming 16 million years ago. For their study, the scientists zeroed in ...