The Elephant’s Foot, a highly radioactive corium glob that formed beneath the Chernobyl reactor during the 1986 disaster, looks remarkably like a cooled basaltic flow. “Blue lava” is also not lava.

cactus-like flower blossoming out of a mound of resin made to look like cooled lava recently extruded from a volcano. To make the sculpture series, Edmier developed new techniques for pouring ...

Just colors and formations are just unreal," he ... on some steady maneuvering — to capture stunning images of cooled lava formations. This is the new Puna and this is what people are going ...

“This is the best laboratory we have right now to learn how the lava flows cool.” We turn our headlamps on, crawl in, and confront the surprising reddish color of the walls. On the ceiling we ...

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 ...