No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes.

When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface ...

The new images show Loki Patera, a 127-mile-long (200 km) lava lake on Io's surface. Scientists have been observing this lava lake for decades. It sits over the magma reservoirs under Io's surface.

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

A slow-moving lava flow made of glass is still inching its way down a volcano in Chile, nearly a year after it first erupted, geologists recently discovered. IE 11 is not supported.

Hidden Planet How lava caves on Earth helped scientists find one on the Moon. A lava tube has been confirmed on the moon for the first time, according to recent research.

Another potential hazard is Pele's hair, a volcanic glass formation produced from cooled lava that's stretched into thin strands. The USGS warns that winds could carry lighter particles from the ...

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, ...