Sometimes fresh interplanetary discoveries can be made right next door. China’s Chang’e 3 rover has found evidence of a new type of basaltic rock in one of the dark basins on the moon. The findings, ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our understanding of the moon's volcanic history. Presented at the Goldschmidt ...

Browne will present on his project, “Probing the subvolcanic magma plumbing systems of continental and oceanic basaltic volcanoes, examples from Medicine Lake volcano and the Axial Seamount.” ...

Fluid flow through basaltic crust on mid-ocean ridge flanks has a significant role in cooling the Earth, regulating biogeochemical cycles within the oceans and providing chemical gradients (that is, ...

Analysis of the chemical make up of two asteroids in the outer asteroid belt has thrown the classification system for these small bodies, which orbit between Mars and Jupiter, into disorder. The ...

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Most volcanic eruptions are of the basaltic variety. The eruptions are typically rather tame. Every once in a while, however, the same types of eruptions turn violent and explosive.

Kenneth Sims and other research scientists recently discovered that mafic volcanism of Henrys Fork Caldera, which is located in eastern Idaho and west of Yellowstone National Park, occurred ...

Study reveals which conditions can render basaltic volcanoes highly destructive More than half of the world’s volcanoes are basaltic. Most basaltic eruptions tend to ooze their magma out in a ...

Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought—and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust. The Martian surface is uniformly basaltic, a product of billions of years ...