NASA’s Perseverance rover recently captured a stunning image of a black-and-white striped rock on Mars, sparking excitement ...

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If you love traveling to remote locations, this small Alaskan island town located on a volcanic rock and surrounded by wilderness should be next on your list.

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Monitoring stations around Mount Adams noted nine earthquakes ranging from magnitude 0.9 to 2.0 near the volcano between ...

In the high desert of north-central New Mexico, a 40-minute drive west of Santa Fe, a surreal landscape of eroded volcanic ...

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Authorities are seeking the public's help in finding individuals who desecrated ancient, protected tribal rock carvings near ...

Tephra is a general term for fragments of volcanic rock and lava that are blasted into the air by explosions or carried upward by hot gases. Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris ...

When this pressure is released, for example as a result of plate movement, magma shoots to the surface causing a volcanic eruption. Above the ground the liquid rock is called lava and as it cools ...

pushing through breaks in the rock and causing the ground to tremble. The ground may swell as unseen magma flows toward the surface. Often, the volcano starts belching out more volcanic gas.