The once very successful group of marine arthropods called trilobites were hit hard by the Ordovician mass extinction and never fully recovered until going extinct 200 million years later. At the end ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

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 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.

A new study 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 it was a giant meteorite ...

A new scenario suggests how a rare form of quartz came to be found in a dried lake bed by the Curiosity rover. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south pole. Two separate analyses of lunar rocks brought to Earth by China’s Chang’e-6 ...

There were volcanic eruptions on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, according to a new analysis of a lunar sample collected by the Chang’e‑5 mission. Samples collected by the Apollo, Luna ...

Ever since the Voyager mission sent home images of Jupiter’s moon Io spewing material into space, we’ve gradually built up a clearer picture of Io’s volcanic activity. It slowly became clear that Io, ...