The Great Dying has remained a captivating topic for experts. However, some aspects of this event remain under wraps for ...

Remnants of solidified lava brought back by a Chinese mission were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions decades ago, according to an article in the journal Science ...

The transition from the towering heights of the volcano down onto the flat lava plain at the base of the scarp can be easily seen in the color-coded topography image. Olympus Mons flank topography.

It was found in Algeria in 2012. The 2.4-billion-year-old-meteorite's journey to Earth began when something slammed into the surface of Mars, hitting a volcano or lava plain.

On its third swing past Mercury, NASA’s Mercury Messenger spacecraft discovered an unexpectedly young lava plain, rapid rufflings of the planet’s weak magnetic field and an unanticipated dance ...

Out of one of these troughs, a boomerang-shaped lava plain is visible. But was the lava flowing out or in the crater? As the lava plain demonstrates, younger features are brighter on Mercury.

Chinese scientists have found signs of water in samples retrieved by China from a lava plain on the moon, bringing them closer to understanding its origin there - a crucial question for future ...

When people think of volcanoes, they don’t typically think of Michigan. But volcanic activity was the driving force behind some of Michigan’s key resources and landmarks.

It eventually subsided into a vast lava plain — the Columbia Plateau. This basalt forms the parent material across the Northwest, and over time it weathers and becomes soil.

Find the complete program transcript, including credits, for the NOVA program Volcano Under the City originally broadcast on PBS on November 1, 2005.

We stumbled along in the darkness, the path a lighter gray amid the deep charcoal of the dried lava fields surrounding us. Up ahead was our goal, the dull, angry, red glow our own personal Mount ...

A last glimpse of the volcano showed it to be as active as ever, with red patches of lava, cooling in the plain, visible to us even as the sky brightened.