Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although more than 99.95% of Earth's gold is locked in the molten core, tiny amounts may be coming up to the surface in magma, a ...

This video shows a large wall of basalt columns rising from a grassy volcanic landscape in Iceland. The tall stone formations ...

Study reveals ancient volcanoes in Kazakhstan and a lost world beneath the steppe containing valuable hidden minerals ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Volcanic eruptions at Earth’s surface have significant consequences. Smaller ones can scare tourists on Mount Etna or disrupt air traffic. Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts.

A group of hikers were just metres from the crater of a volcano when it erupted, sending ash and rocks raining down on the prohibited hiking route ...

The landforms indicated with arrows correspond to old magmatic intrusive rocks that may have been ancient volcanoes in the northern Andes ~10-20 million years ago. A new study published in Earth and ...