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Space Volcanoes Tell the Explosive History of Mars, Venus, and Multiple Moons

While volcanoes have brought profound changes to landscapes here on Earth, volcanic activity on other planets and moons has followed a different path. It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ...
Yahoo

Ancient moon volcanoes made tiny glass beads. Here's what they mean.

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...
Science Daily

One of Earth's ancient volcanic mysteries solved

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history. Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University ...
PBS

What scientists have learned from Mount St. Helens’ devastating eruption, 45 years later

It was 45 years ago today when Mount St. Helens erupted, triggering the biggest landslide in Earth’s recorded history and creating an ash cloud that reached across the country. John Yang looks back at ...
New Scientist

Volcanoes had lower greenhouse gas emissions in Earth's past

Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...