Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

Volcanology is the study of the generation and movement of molten rock on Earth and other planetary bodies, primarily through volcanoes and volcanic eruptions. This encompasses the generation of ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that Earth's first life thrived in volcanic hellscapes 2.75 billion years ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has erupted again, putting on a fiery spectacle with lava fountains reaching an astonishing 600 feet ...

Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south pole. Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a ...

From 2004 to 2005, the Geological Survey of Finland drilled the Outokompu borehole, which currently reaches a depth of 2,516 meters, as a geo-laboratory for scientific researchers. Over the last two ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the caves beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus are an anomaly in more ways than one.

Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most ...

How can we explore Saturn's moon, Enceladus, to include its surface and subsurface ocean, with the goal of potentially discovering life as we know it? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Enceladus, Saturn's moon, exhibits geysers that may originate from a "mushy zone" within its icy shell rather than a subsurface ocean. This zone forms through ...