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 ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

The lava that erupts at Hawaii's volcanoes ... ts can use their trunk like a snorkel in the water. Earth's top layer, the crust, is made of cool, hardened rock. But in some places, geological ...