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.

Currently oceanic crust forms by the eruption of basaltic lava along a globe-encircling network of mid-ocean ridges. More than 18 cubic kilometers of rock are produced every year by this process.

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 ...

Far beneath the Earth's surface, a fiery world of viscous molten rock exists below the continental and oceanic plates, perpetually churning and shifting under the immense pressure and stress of a ...

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 ...

The study shows that the lava flow is made of basaltic lava and weakens any notion that Venus might have once had an Earth-like climate with oceans of liquid water. Past studies have suggested ...

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

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?