Ever since the Voyager mission sent home images of Jupiter's moon Io spewing material into space, we've gradually built up a clearer picture of Io's volcanic activity. It slowly became clear that Io, ...

United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Mark Stelton (left) and Kenneth Sims, a UW professor of geology and geophysics and a member of the USGS Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, examine a ...

For decades, scientists have gone back and forth about whether massive volcanic eruptions or an asteroid impact — or maybe both — caused a mass extinction that saw the demise of all nonbird dinosaurs ...

Volcanoes erupting underwater have a distinctive effect on the climate that is larger and more widespread than previously thought, according to an international group led by University of Auckland and ...

Analysis of lunar samples from the Chang'e 5 mission revealed three volcanic glass beads, dated to approximately 123 million years old (with a 15-million-year margin of error). This finding challenges ...

A new scenario suggests how a rare form of quartz came to be found in a dried lake bed by the Curiosity rover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - An Earth-sized planet orbiting a dim star in our galactic neighborhood is offering some of the best evidence to date of volcanism beyond our solar system, with ...