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 ...

Computer-generated view of surface of the planet Venus dominated by Maat Mons, a massive Venusian volcano. Venus is very similar to Earth if one looks at the planet's size, its mass, chemical ...

A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous. The results confirm the hypothesis that ...

Learn how a young volcano on Mars stayed active for nine million years and what its changing lava reveals about Mars’ interior.

A research team utilized teleseismic double-difference tomography technology to uncover the morphological changes of the Pacific subducting slab in the mantle transition zone beneath Northeast China.

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A Dec. 8 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a person claiming that sub-glacial volcanos are the only cause of melting in Antarctica. "Before today we have been led to believe that the ...