Expansive lava flows in the Sáttítla Highlands was captured by satellites ahead of the recent designation of the area as a national monument.

YAMANAKAKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--Solidified lava from eruptions of Mount Fuji in the distant past offers frightening clues of what awaits if the sacred mountain blows its top again. Researchers ...

Scientists have studied the moon's surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark, flat areas on the moon filled with ...

Lava is the word for magma when it erupts onto the Earth's surface. Geologists also use the term to describe the solidified deposits of lava flows and fragments hurled into the air by explosive ...

The moon is still shrinking and stretching, scientists claim, after discovering a series of ridges on the lunar surface that ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

they include both moving lava and the resulting solidified deposits of black rock. Lava flows come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Nyiragongo is considered one of the most dangerous ...

A study has revealed there are certain activities on the moon's surface that can likely negate the postulation of “lunar body being geologically dead”.

The island's 18th-century eruptions have sculpted a landscape filled with solidified lava flows, volcanic cones, and ash fields. Down at the coastline, black and brown colors dominate, brightened ...