Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Cambridge scientists discovered that thin, weak zones in Earth’s plates helped spread Iceland’s mantle plume across the North ...

If all volcanoes erupted together, the planet would be plunged into darkness as ash clouds blocked the Sun and global cooling ...

On a morning horizon in May, the Odyssey orbiter caught a stunning glimpse of one of the planet's largest volcanoes peeking above a canopy of clouds. Known as Arsia Mons, the volcano dwarfs Earth ...

If a volcano really did erupt just after Venus Express showed up, the event could have been seen directly by the satellite’s infrared detectors — but only on the planet’s night side, since ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot ...

Young Mars would have been a staggering place to explore. The Red Planet was covered in flowing rivers of both water and lava. At the time, a series of four volcanoes — Olympus Mons and the ...