If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

Three tiny glass beads, from a sample of 3,000 taken from the Moon, have revealed evidence of recent volcanic activity. Previous scientific estimates suggested volcanic activity ended more than 2 ...

The Moon has long been treated as a geologically dead world, a frozen relic that finished erupting billions of years ago. A wave of new data is now challenging that assumption, pointing instead to a ...

Yellowstone National Park, renowned for its geothermal features and volcanic history, is beginning to show signs of renewed activity after remaining inactive for approximately 160,000 years. Recent ...

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as distributed volcanic fields. To better understand their formation and activity ...

Lionel Wilson has in the past received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for work on lunar volcanism. Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a ...

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, the science agency of the U.S. Department of Interior. Our job is to obtain and share science-based information about the ...