Experts detect many heavy metals in the collected lava samples from Hawaii, which they believe arrived from 1,900 miles below ...

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.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for ...

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 ...

This kind of volcano typically erupts basalt lava, which melts at very high temperature and tends to flow easily. Eruptions are generally not explosive because the runny lava allows gases to escape.

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 ...

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 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 ...