Sketch of the lava fountaining cycle at Fagradalsfjall. Credit: Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42569-9 A multi-institutional team of Earth scientists, meteorologists, geologists ...

In 1874, James Nasmyth and James Carpenter published a remarkable book: The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. Lavishly illustrated with spectacular images of lunar features based ...

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Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

Deep within Greenland’s ice sheet, a chemical anomaly has sparked intense scientific debate, especially after researchers uncovered a platinum spike dating back around 12,800 years. Initially ...

An analysis of lunar samples returned by China's Chang'e 5 moon mission has produced a new possible answer for volcanism late in the moon's history. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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BILLINGS — Ken Dueker knows he won't end the debate about what drives the roiling volcanic system beneath Yellowstone National Park. But he may move it ahead. Dueker, an assistant geology professor at ...

A multi-institutional team of Earth scientists, meteorologists, geologists and volcanologists has developed a new theory to explain the nature of volcanic fountaining. In their project, reported in ...