Massive volcanic eruptions billions of years ago may have made it snow on Mars, leaving thick buried ice near the planet’s ...

Volcanoes are one of nature’s most awe-inspiring creations, giant mountains ejecting red hot lava that are both beautiful and deadly. We recently explored why volcanoes are so astounding, but, did you ...

Researchers investigated the phenomena that led to the recent activity of seven hot spots located in the central Pacific. Numerical mechanical models showed that variations in movement of the Pacific ...

The central Andes of South America is an exciting place to study volcanology. The continental crust in the here is thicker than almost anywhere else on earth and certainly the thickest with abundant ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Volcanic activity on the far side of the earth's moon may have lasted longer than previously ...

(Reuters) - China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the moon, which perpetually faces away from Earth. That material is ...

Artwork of a pair of tyrannosaur dinosaurs surveying a volcanic landscape. This depicts a scene at the end of the Cretaceous period in Earths history. A massive meteorite has impacted the Earth, ...

Mars' surface is a lifeless, unwelcoming desert. But beneath its red soil the planet still might be alive -- geologically. Big space news broke in 2018: Using a ground-penetrating radar aboard a Mars ...

A recent study by members of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has been getting a lot of attention - one where it was suggested that we are very close to the ability to detect volcanic ...

I have never had to leave my home in an evacuation from a natural disaster. I'll put that out there right now. So, I might not fully understand the emotions going through people when they find out ...

Ocean deoxygenation during the Mesozoic Era was much more rapid than previous thought, with CO2 induced environmental warming creating ocean 'dead zones' over timescales of only tens of thousands of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The once very successful group of marine arthropods called ...