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.

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?

Lava is magma that has erupted above the planet’s surface. The most common variety of molten rock, either above ground or below, is basalt. Basaltic lava the world over is classified with the Hawaiian ...

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 ...

"Lava temperatures vary. Basaltic lava such as that erupting near Grindavik is typically 1,100 to 1,200 degrees Celsius," Rachel Beane, a professor of natural sciences at Bowdoin College ...

Recently, however, I have started to question how the game would work if the floor actually were made of lava. I started by assuming that I live in a standard two-storey home, with the floor ...

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 ...