"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

Rootless cones are small volcanic landforms ranging from several to several hundred meters in diameter, formed by continuous ...

The real scenario has lava with a temperature of more than 1,000°C (1,800°F) covering rivers, lakes, or some other water-rich ...

That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars. The Athabasca Valles system offers key insights into the history of water on the Red Planet, and its ...

What does NASA's discovery of odd popcorn rocks on Mars actually mean? It has discovered an oddly textured rock similar to ...

The holes, aka pits, are located on the flanks of ancient volcanoes in Mars's Tharsis region, the largest volcanic region on the red planet and home to some of the biggest volcanoes in our solar ...

Nakhlites are a unique suite of ~20 Martian meteorites. They are basaltic pyroxenites with mineralogies dominated by cumulative pyroxene and olivine. Traditionally considered to represent a shallow ...

Using syrup and baking soda, research has demonstrated the formation mechanism of rootless cones, small volcanic landforms commonly found on Earth and Mars. The study clarified, through an ...