Explore New Mexico’s Valley of Fires, where molten rock, wild terrain, and ancient legends collide in a breathtaking desert ...

The basaltic lava flow, known as the Carrizozo Malpaís, covers around 130 square miles (337 square kilometers) and is around 50 miles (80 kilometers) long.

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.

The Timber Hill basalt is an ancient lava flow that now forms a prominent mesa in the area, standing high above Sweetwater Canyon where the road passes beneath towering cliffs of dark basalt near ...

Lawrence P. Growney/For the Times-News The.lava flow visible on the west side of.Deadman Falls forms the pillow basalts you pass coming up the hill on Sailor Creek Road.

Previously, it was thought that the youngest eruption in the region was the rhyolite lava of the Pitchstone Plateau about 70,000 years ago, while the youngest known basalt flow was 120,000 years old.