Live video from the area showed fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground, in sharp contrast to the still-dark night sky.

However, the Chang'e 5 mission in 2021 brought back an ancient black rock, dated at 2 billion years old, quietly challenging this traditional perception. Three years later, Chang'e 6 followed suit, ...

A new study shows that temperature differences along volcanic and geothermal cracks could have naturally separated and concentrated life's building blocks.

Tiny cracks in rocks may have concentrated chemicals needed for life The gentle flow of warm fluids could have given pre-life chemistry a boost.

Biophysicists have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life.

A fissure in the tectonic plate 200 kilometres off the coast of Cabo de São Vicente (Sagres) may be the cause of major Lisbon ...

LMU biophysicists have demonstrated how heat flows through rock fissures could have created the conditions for the emergence of life.