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

“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 ...

The Oregon Badlands is the strangest wilderness in Oregon, with no mountains, lakes or streams. This desert landscape east of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...