UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and ...

It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ferocious and devastating ... This tug-of-war causes layers of rock beneath Io's surface to jostle and heat up, melting solid rock into magma.

By analyzing basalt fragments retrieved from this region, the scientists discovered that these rocks share a similar ... according to scientists. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space ...

The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space by an impact on the surface ... and his team have studied was crystallised in magma below the Martian surface. When they examined the ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

adding credence to the ocean magma theory. Image captured by the landing camera of the Chang’e 6 lander-2. Credit: CNSA Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center Lunar soil from Chang'e-6 ...

Volcanoes are formed when magma (liquid rock) trapped underneath the Earth’s crust rises to the surface and escapes through cracks. The space for the magma to leave is very small and ...

Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent boundary occurs where two plates move apart, allowing magma, or molten rock, to rise from ... Trying to occupy the same space, the land masses buckle ...