Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

A bizarre “road” was just spotted deep in the Pacific Ocean… and what caused it is nothing short of mind-bending.

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...

Waterfalls form through various geological processes, but they all involve water flowing over a sudden drop in elevation.

China's Zhurong rover, part of the 2021 Tianwen-1 mission, has found the first clear signs of ancient beach deposits under ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

THE Canary Islands have long been a go-to destination for winter sun. But you can see similar beaches, luscious landscapes ...

Scientists studying volcanic eruptions in Iceland say microbes begin colonizing new lava flows faster and more predictably than once thought.