The presence of pink granite beneath the glacial ice in Antarctica had stumped scientists for years, as they had no clue where it came from. Researchers led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ...

A large formation of granite discovered below the lunar surface likely was formed from the cooling of molten lava that fed a volcano or volcanoes that erupted early in the Moon's history -- as long as ...

HOUSTON — Four billion years ago, Mars might have looked a lot more like Earth than we thought – not on the surface, where rusty red deserts stretched toward the horizon, but deep underground, where ...

A recent discovery shows that the moon's far side was volcanically active. A team of geologists found a large granite deposit beneath a long-extinct lunar volcano, supporting the theory that the ...

Graah Fjelde is a close up of a cliff on a mountainside in Greenland. The cliff is about 800 m high and is made up of granite (brown rocks) and “rafts” of older rock that were intruded by this granite ...

Do you know Which U.S. State is Known as the 'Granite State'? This New England state earned its nickname because of the vast granite formations. These formations dominate the landscape of the state ...