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

The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at Sundhnukar on Wednesday night and peaked ...

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the ...

According to a 2013 U.S. Geological Survey study, the basalt beneath Oregon and Washington could hold more than 14,000 ...

Scientists release first analyses of samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission, which landed on the lunar far side.

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

One way to find water worlds beyond our solar system could be to look for minerals — or more specifically, to study minerals mixed with cool lava on exoplanet surfaces. This is because if water ...

How can astronomers determine if an exoplanet has water based on Earth’s geological composition? This is what a recent study ...

The study team decided to focus its attention on a material called basalt, because this dark, fine-grained rock forms when lava flows onto the surface of a planet and then cools. It's also one of ...

The samples were collected by China’s Chang’e 6, which became the first ever probe to touch down in the region in early June.