Meet ignimbrite, a volcanic rock found here on Earth and potentially on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...

The false-color image on the left shows olivine-rich deposits in the Nili Fossae region compared with welded ignimbrite deposits on Earth (true color). The fractures in the Earth example are cooling ...

Researchers at BSC are using the MareNostrum supercomputer to study super eruptions–volcanic events with most destructive force on this planet. Only a few super volcanos exist in the world and when ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Stacy Henderson, Ph.D. student in the ...

About 40,000 years ago, the last sparse Neanderthal communities roamed Europe, their numbers dwindling as Homo sapiens encroached on their territory. Times were hard, and about to get worse. That’s ...

Determining the history of Mars, how it formed and evolved over time, has been a goal of both orbiter and rover missions to the Red Planet for decades. Analyzing data from several of these Mars ...