The following is a news release from the National Park Service. ARCO – The National Park Service has reopened a portion of the Loop Road and the Lava Flow Campground at Craters of the Moon National ...

It's where black lava rock stretches for miles, broken only by the flowers that bloom in the cracks. This is a place so unique, it could pass for another celestial body. Except it's not the stuff of ...

ARCO — On May 2, Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Southern Idaho turned 101, bringing its 100th anniversary year to a close. President Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation to ...

IDAHO, USA — Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve marked its 101st birthday Friday, concluding its centennial celebration year with record-breaking visitor numbers and numerous ...

NASA views Craters of the Moon as an analog to the moon, Mars and other planetary bodies. The North Highway Flow’s silicon- and titanium-rich lava rocks are the result of an eruptive period along the ...

Although no bright orange lava flows here now, the gnarled and crusty terrain frozen in time traces the tale of rivers of lava that gushed from fissures across the Snake River Plain called the Great ...

ARCO, Idaho The body of a 63-year-old hiker reported missing at the Craters of the Moon National Monument a month ago has been found, according to officials with the National Park Service. Park ...

Target of probe changed to boost chance of finding water ice on moon. Sept. 29, 2009— -- NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, which is set to collide with the moon next week, has switched its targeted ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q Why does the moon have craters? — Yusuf Masood, Madison, Wis. A Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist at the Space Science and ...