Bringing a novel approach to a classic problem, researchers have revealed how changes in ocean chemistry over the past 2 ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

Igneous rocks form when magma cools underground or erupts at the surface as lava. The magma rises into the Earth’s crust, where it can get trapped underground or erupt from volcanoes as molten lava.

A study led by researchers at the United States Geological Survey estimated that between 5 to 19 million tons of lithium ...

A tourist was delighted to be invited into a house in Cape Verde to discover an amazing natural phenomenon inside.

Living microbes were recently discovered sealed away inside a two-billion-year-old rock, setting a new precedent for what is ...

One moment the crust took the form of a shattered windshield ... Today his land is a pile of jagged volcanic rocks. "We know the mountain will erupt again. Lava will come. Our houses will burn.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

A team of geologists investigated Easter Island’s age by dating zircon minerals, which turned out to highlight ancient ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

The towering seamount off the coast of American Samoa was explored by underwater robot for the first time since 2005.