Water — H₂O — that originates from the atmosphere, including snow and rain, is called “meteoric water.” The large amounts of ...

Over geological timescales, lava can flood the planet's surface, filling in craters and creating a more youthful appearance than Venus' true age of 4.5 billion years.

Earthquakes remind us that even the ground beneath our feet can have a mind of its own. For Anchorage citizens, that reality shook to life as the city hosted not one, but two earthquakes mere hours ...

Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award. Carn has scaled many mountains ...

Although researchers did predict the Axial Seamount would erupt in 2025, people on the Pacific coast shouldn't worry about ...

Scientists said the Kilauea Iki (1959) and Maunaulu eruptions (1969) featured similar episodes. Both cases were caused by temporary obstructions within the eruptive vents, usually a collapsed part of ...

Understand the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active zone with over 75% of the world's volcanoes. Learn how it impacts the U.S. and what scientists are doing to prepare.

Venus also has thousands of active volcanoes, but the mechanism of the planet's geological activity is still a mystery. A team from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has a novel suggestion.

Kilauea, the second largest volcano in Hawaii, began erupting on Wednesday after a three-month pause, U.S. Geological Survey officials said. The survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a ...

Yet Venus does not have plate tectonics, so it cannot renew its surface in the same way that Earth does over geological time periods. What Venus does have is volcanoes, and a lot of them — more ...