Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By studying chemical processes in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists are ...

Scientists have long known that volcanoes shaped the near side of the Moon, visible from Earth. However, very little was ...

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces. This is because if water ...

The Antarctic Creek Member is only 20 metres or so in thickness, and mostly comprises sedimentary rocks that are sandwiched between several kilometres of dark, basaltic lava. However, it also ...

These beaches form over time by the erosion of volcanic materials such as lava fragments, basalt rocks or other minerals – combined with the ebb and flow of the ocean's tide. Several of these ...

I’m going to recommend that you seek out the third, less visited destination in this labyrinth: Badlands Rock. The tallest point in the middle of the wilderness, this 200-foot-tall outcrop looks like ...

In northern Türkiye's Bartın, basalt rocks formed million years ago by the cooling and crystallization of lava from volcanic eruptions ...

Lava flowed across the land and as it cooled ... The Giant’s Causeway is a coastal area with basalt rocks that look like columns. It was created by a volcano. Many plants and animals live ...