Learn more about these shimmery, orange and black beads on the moon that researchers describe as "tiny, pristine" time ...

A discovery of lunar glass beads continues to captivate scientists, shedding new light on the Moon’s volcanic history. These ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Scientists may be able to use tiny glass beads found on the lunar surface to uncover more details about the Moon's secret ...

The study examined beads of volcanic glass collected by the Chang’e-5 mission, which landed on the moon in December 2020, and found that they formed around 120 million years ago. The study ...

Along with volcanic ash, his brain and spinal cord were found to contain a mysterious archeological treasure: tiny, gleaming shards of black glass. Not till 2020, around 1,941 years after he ...

Pele’s hair is striking: fine, golden filaments of volcanic glass that shimmer like spider silk in the sunlight. Formed when lava is ejected explosively and rapidly stretched into thin strands, these ...

Now, scientists studying his remains believe they’ve found out more details about how the glass fragments were ... glassy remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull,” he ...

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast ...