China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

A vast scar from a cosmic collision has been sitting in southern China, hiding in the landscape so effectively that people ...

Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano has roared back after millennia, sending ash across regions. Here’s 10 biggest volcanic blasts ...

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

As of Sunday, Nov. 30, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. This means 74% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...

Scientists have discovered living, methane-producing microbes deep inside a massive meteorite impact crater in Sweden, and ...

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past ...

Archaeologists studied hundreds of unfinished stone heads in a quarry on Easter Island to better understand how they were ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is selected for places that possess outstanding universal value for humanity in terms or ...

Long-lasting habitability on Mars reshapes the search for life as Curiosity finds altered dunes that stayed wet after Martian ...

The models showed that these strange shapes could form when magma rises and weakens the surface in a “squishy” or partly moving lid. Instead of forming clear, global plates like Earth, Venus likely ...

Understanding the moon’s seismic activity is critical to the success or failure of future lunar missions. Lunar seismic ...