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 ...

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

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 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 ...

Analysis of lunar samples from the Chang'e 5 mission revealed three volcanic glass beads, dated to approximately 123 million years old (with a 15-million-year margin of error). This finding challenges ...

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 ...

Volcanoes that dominate postcards and disaster movies are often the ones we can see, their peaks etched against the sky. Yet ...

Mount Etna is not just any volcano; it is a complex stratovolcano that has been active for thousands of years. Its eruptions are primarily caused by the interaction of the African and Eurasian ...

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 ...