Beaches around the world come in many colors, from the familiar golden and white sands to rarer hues like pink, red, and even ...

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 ...

That eruption created Iceland's biggest basalt lava flow in more than 230 years but caused no injuries or damage. Iceland has seen seven volcanic eruptions in a year near the southwestern fishing ...

The separation of the Seychelles "microcontinent" (the Mascarene Platform) was accompanied by a tremendous outpouring of basaltic lava from this hotspot, giving birth to a mass of igneous rock ...

Abby: These were originally made to melt bronze and aluminum, but the Lava Project has repurposed one of them to melt up to 800 pounds of billion-year-old basaltic rock shipped all the way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

Select the journal/section where you want your idea to be submitted: Basaltic volcanoes are characterized by persistent periods of activity ranging from effusive lava flows to explosive eruptions with ...