New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...

In June 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission landed on one of the most remote and scientifically valuable regions of the Moon: the ...

What Makes the Greenhouse Effect Work Earth receives energy from the sun in the form of visible light and ultraviolet ...

Once considered a fringe idea, the prospect of offsetting global warming by releasing massive quantities of ...

How to predict when Ruapehu might next erupt is an important, but difficult, question. A group of researchers thought: why ...

Rapid uplifting near the 13,000-foot-tall summit of Taftan shows that this long-dormant volcano is more geologically active ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists said episode 35 of the ongoing Halemaumau eruption ended abruptly today at 3:32 a.m.

For decades, the colossal Taftan volcano of eastern Iran appeared a lifeless piece of history. It towered nearly 13,000 feet ...

A volcanic island in Iceland revealed that birds, not wind, brought the first plants. This changes what we know about how ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled traces of Earth’s earliest form, hidden deep within the planet’s mantle. This discovery, based on ...

Two thousand years ago, Alaska’s Mount Okmok volcano spewed ash high into the atmosphere for months. Scientists believe it ...