In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like lava fields of Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, preparing to explore the ...

Imagine standing at the rim of a vast caldera, the earth beneath your feet formed by unimaginable forces millions of years ...

He mapped the geology of Albania and became one of the ... which looms over the city from atop the gargantuan cinder cone of an ancient basaltic volcano. According to local lore, a woman was ...

Figure 1. The sparsely populated high desert of eastern Oregon is home to three localities producing natural copper-bearing labradorite feldspar. In this view of Lake County’s Dust Devil mine, the ...

The unique geology of this area offers a mesmerizing experience for ... perfect for adventurers and nature lovers. This cinder cone volcano erupted in a farmer’s cornfield in 1943 and is one of the ...

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. The Vermont-based company has been giving away free ice cream to its customers annually since 1979, a year after Ben ...

The most recent was "Murara," a cinder cone that emerged between 1976 and 1977. The mountain is also surrounded by old lava flows that spilled down its slopes (and are visible in the satellite photo).

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

Few things in life may be better than free ice cream, and today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. Since 1979, a year after Ben & Jerry's was established, the company has given free ice cream to ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

It’s encircled by a road with picture-perfect pull-outs, from which visitors take in the multihued water and a distinctive cinder cone volcano, Wizard Island, that rises from within the lake.