Basalt, a gray-black volcanic rock found throughout ... These altered minerals could become amphibole (a hydrous silicate) or serpentine (another hydrous silicate, which looks like a snake's ...

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

These altered minerals could become amphibole (a hydrous silicate) or serpentine (another hydrous silicate, which looks like a snake’s skin). By examining small spectral differences between the basalt ...