Kīlauea continues to keep the world enthralled with its epic eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, which started on Dec. 23, 2024.

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect ...

Kīlauea Volcano eruption ends with lava fountains reaching 1,300 feet inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater. The summit caldera is under ...

“ Maui Nui in its heyday, about 1.2 million years ago, encompassed about 5,640 square miles, larger by 50% than today’s Big ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano once again captivated onlookers with a stunning display of nature's power as it spewed lava fountains reaching up to 1,000 feet during its latest eruptive cycle. This ...

Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

This MCC image, taken on September 03, 2015 at an altitude of 6144 km with a resolution of 320 m, shows an intermediate sized shield volcano known as Tharsis Tholus. It is located in the eastern ...

Evidence continues to assemble that Venus is more geologically active than previously thought. Planetary scientists scouring decades-old data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft have found signs of lava ...

Olympus Mons, a shield volcano on Mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system, measuring approximately 370 miles in diameter and 26 kilometers in height. The formation of Olympus Mons and three ...