One of California's latest national monuments is an enormous, pristine section of mountains, lakes, and lava flows in the ...

Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

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

"We're testing basaltic materials here on Earth to eventually ... Measuring the spectrum of lava flows spread across the surface of a distant world would take dozens, or even hundreds, of hours ...

Abby: These were originally made to melt bronze and aluminum, but the Lava Project has repurposed one of them to melt up to 800 pounds of billion-year-old basaltic rock shipped all the way from ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is at it again, with lava from the latest eruptive episode shooting nearly 600 feet into the air. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), episode 11 of the ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is at it again, with lava from the latest eruptive episode shooting nearly 600 feet into the air. According to the U.S. Geological ...