A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

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

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 ...

From living paint to injecting rocks, scientists have bizarre carbon capture ideas that could help us tackle the climate ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...

Carved into volcanic rock, lived in for centuries, Kandovan shows how architecture adapts when survival comes first., Travel, ...

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 ...