While the surface of Mars looks relatively unchanging now, it wasn’t always so. The tallest mountain in the Solar System…
The enormous undersea volcano that erupted in Tonga last year was record-breaking in many regards. It generated the highest-ever recorded…
A new map created with decades-old radar imagery from NASA's 1990’s Magellan mission shows the locations of a whopping 85,000…
Interest in the exploration of Venus has kicked up a notch lately, especially after a contested recent discovery of phosphine,…
Everyone loves looking at the Moon, especially through a telescope. To see those dark and light patches scattered across its…
For all of Earth's geological diversity and its long history, the planet has never had ice volcanoes. But Pluto has.…
New research has found more evidence that Mars once experienced super-volcanoes that filled the atmosphere with ash and dust.
Predicting volcanic eruptions is notoriously tricky. In large part this is because volcanos are unique, each with their own quirks…
The ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope will launch soon. Once it's deployed, and in position at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point…
At a fundamental level, Mars is a volcanic planet. Its surface is home to the Solar System's largest extinct volcano,…