06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
...that surrounding Mars today. The remains of this ancient frenzied volcanic activity can still be seen on the Moon today as smooth ... that the atmosphere was thickest during the peak in volcanic activity about 3.5 billion years ago and that the maximum ...
29 August 2019
Have researchers found the first volcanically active exomoon?
...-rich neighbours. While Io might be largely uninhabitable, the volcanism responsible for many of Io’s unique features has helped astronomers identify similar signs of geological activity venting from an otherwise hidden exo-Io moon. Astronomers have...
December 2014
Motion capture
...monitor our dynamic planet, helping us to predict future volcanic eruptions and understand the distribution of earthquake hazard. I ... frequently and systematically over all the tectonically and volcanically active areas of the planet. The data will be...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
..., new research suggests that Venus, Earth’s “twin”, is also volcanically active and that the lava flows may be only a few years old...say Filiberto and colleagues meaning that Venus could be volcanically active today. This would make it the only planet ...
04 May 2016
Martian minerals point to subglacial volcanoes
...ice cap are sites that have shapes consistent with volcanic eruptions beneath an ice sheet and although they have... sulfates and clays, that on Earth result from subglacial volcanism. By confirming that these structures are subglacial volcanoes it also...
27 March 2020
Mercury's crust could have had episodic habitable conditions, new study says
... in the hotspots bubbled up to the surface, it caused widespread volcanic plains to form and the regional heat flow to decrease. This ...thought to have led to an epoch of volcanic activity, so it could be that the same occurred on Mercury, with...
