Submarine volcanoes, volcanic structures hidden beneath the ocean surface, play a vital role in shaping Earth’s geology and marine ecosystems. Formed through tectonic plate movements, rising magma, ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot into the sky, potentially hundreds or thousands of feet. As ubiquitous and ...

In a new study, researchers show that gas bubbles can form in the rising magma not only due to a drop in pressure but also due to shear forces. If these gas bubbles grow in the volcanic vent early on ...

Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The intensity of a volcanic eruption is shaped by how many gas bubbles develop ...

Scientists say they've discovered a 400-mile chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes beneath southern China. The volcanoes, the researchers claim, were likely formed when two major tectonic plates ...

Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news stories. But despite the jolts and temblors, geologists say there's ...

Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...