Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Distribution of IMPs on the nearside. Data used in this study include Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) NAC nadir-pointing images, LROC WAC and Clementine Ultraviolet/Visible (UVVIS ...

After its formation, the moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several ...

A large mass of granite that has been slowly releasing heat has been discovered buried beneath a crater on the Moon. This 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, ...

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 ...

Fig. 3. Lunar volcanic landforms. (A) Floor-fractured crater (44.3°E, 46.5°N), LRO WAC mosaic. (B) Lava flows in the southwestern Imbrium (330.4°E, 25.5°N), Apollo photograph AS15-M-1701. (C) Sinuous ...

If there was a contest for the most un-Earth like world, Io would be one of the top contenders. Without a doubt, the most interesting thing about Io is its huge quantity of active volcanoes. As you ...

For decades, scientists have vigorously debated whether an asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruptions ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Roughly three-quarters of all life on ...