Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards ...

Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology and may cause destructive tsunamis that can ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to ...

Apollo moon rocks show the Moon had short bursts of strong magnetism, not a long lasting magnetic field, changing how we ...

Recent University of Oxford research reveals that the Moon had a mostly weak magnetic field, with brief periods of strong magnetism linked to high-titanium Mare basalts.

Delta on Mars. A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, has been discovered Venus.