Icelandic architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir’s company, Studio Arnhildur Palmadottir, coined the term “lavaforming” and declared ...

Volcanos are releasing ash and smoke into the atmosphere on three continents. That might be making you think back to your elementary school science class when you probably studied volcanoes and lava.

That’s a little dramatic, but it's sort of the truth. It's Black Desert Golf Resort in Utah, situated in a hardened basaltic lava field that dates back millions of years. Wait, what's basaltic lava?

A lava tube is a cave that forms after a volcanic eruption. You can visit the country's third-longest tube in Washington ...

The basaltic lava flow, known as the Carrizozo Malpaís, covers around 130 square miles (337 square kilometers) and is around 50 miles (80 kilometers) long. It is located near Carrizozo ...

Gazel continued to explain that the chemical makeup of most stars hosting exoplanets we've found suggest the planets should be made of the right stuff to form basalt lava: "It will be prevalent ...

Sometimes, a hole in the ground is just a hole. Other times, it’s a portal to an underground cave spanning miles in width and length. You don’t really know what’s inside unless you dive into ...

Photo Credit Thomas cooper/golf channel Utah’s Black Desert Golf Resort, designed by late architect Tom Weiskopf on ancient basaltic lava fields, hosted the PGA Tour’s first Utah stop in 61 years.

The style of eruption is "much less dangerous, because most of the activity involves slow moving basaltic lava flows," he added. "It's a style of volcanic activity that is effusive, slow flowing ...

The study team decided to focus its attention on a material called basalt, because this dark, fine-grained rock forms when lava flows onto the surface of a planet and then cools. It's also one of ...