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 comes ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Jesse Mosolf, geologist with the ...

RENO, Nev. — Scientists long have believed that mass extinctions are triggered by sudden global changes in climate. Some of these cataclysmic events, like the one originally assumed to have wiped out ...

Volcanoes are grouped into four types: cinder cones, composite volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava volcanoes. Cinder cones are circular or oval cones made up of small fragments of lava from a single ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

To reach proposed climate goals, we now need to look beyond the simple acts and focus instead on the bigger culprit industries, especially the building and construction sectors, which account for ...

India, a land of rich natural and cultural heritage, has added seven new sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2025, ...

Living in the Yakima Valley, we hardly give basalt a second thought, even though it’s all around us. Three of Yakima’s churches are either built of it, or use it in their foundations. There are pieces ...

Recently my grandson and I, along with my sister and her husband went on a one-day excursion up north to visit the sights. We started out at Wanapum Dam walking through the giant dam turbine outside ...