Researchers believe dark rocks at the site of a future Mars rover landing mission may be left over from ancient volcanic ...

Volcanic rock is formed when lava or magma cools down and becomes a solid. We call this type of rock igneous rock. Here are three different types of igneous rock from the Museum’s collection.

This project is a multi-disciplinary study in which the student will analyse ... The student will become integrated into the Planetary Materials Group and the Volcano Petrology Group at the Natural ...

Smithsonian Geologist Liz Cottrell answers your questions about geology, the great outdoors and living off the grid in the second season of the National Museum of Natural History’s YouTube ...