The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come ...

From left, UW students Shane Scoggin, Adam Trzinski and Jessie Shields are part of new research investigating crustal melting in western North America. Here, they examine igneous rocks in the Snake ...

Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

The continental crust covers nearly a third of the Earth’s surface. It is buoyant—being less dense than the crust under the surrounding oceans—and is compositionally evolved, dominating the Earth’s ...

Scientists say a weird, baseball-sized space rock studded with green crystals is "completely different" from any other known meteorite on Earth. Thought to be some 4.6 billion years old, the space ...

This photograph, taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station on September 13, 2025, shows the massif casting ...

A group of University of Wyoming professors and students has identified an unusual belt of igneous rocks that stretches for over 2,000 miles from British Columbia, Canada, to Sonora, Mexico. The rock ...

An unusual belt of igneous rocks stretches for over 2,000 miles from British Columbia, Canada, to Sonora, Mexico, running through Idaho, Montana, Nevada, southeast California and Arizona. A group of ...