Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

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

Rising 235 feet from the surf at Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock is Oregon’s most photographed chunk of coastline for good reason ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“And the lavas did something that no other lava flows on Earth have done. Geologists call it differentiated: The rock changed its composition.” Rose says in the middle of the Keweenaw basalt ...

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 ...