Whilst Devils Tower might’ve been the first national monument to be established in the US, it’s not the only one that’s ...

Scientists are trying to figure out how minerals connected to exoplanetary water would look to the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, providing a model for searching for life in ...

“We know lava has structural integrity because we have built columns from lava rocks to support whole houses ... from the bulbous shapes of a cooled field to the glass quality of obsidian ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take a new approach in its quest to find water-rich exoplanets. It will analyze ...

Adding relatively minor factors like crystals, water, ice, and metal can drastically affect how lava moves, cools, and creates formations. When lava meets water, for example, the results can be ...

The rock, which was created by rapidly cooled lava, contains 10 times more water than other Martian ... during the earliest ...

Igneous intrusions are a type of rock ... lava and hot ash gets stuck as an upright gooey mess in the vent of a volcano. That’s the channel inside a volcano that opens up to the surface. As it ...

It's also one of the most common rocks in our solar system ... water around during its formation. As mentioned earlier, when water flows across cooling lava, or through cracks in rock, it ...