which is only a little bit further than our Moon orbits Earth. One of the images generated by JPL illustrates what Jupiter ...

A new animation reveals an enormous lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. The close-up view comes from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which swept within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the volcanic ...

New research conducted by a Western Nevada College professor has found that Lake Tahoe is 2.3 million years old, making it ...

Both lava lakes are fed from the same deep magma chamber ... It's clear that all the fissures originate from the same thin, deep crack in the Earth. At the moment, all the fissures are erupting ...

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the word for magma when it erupts onto the Earth's surface. Geologists ...

Lava comes out of ruptures in the Earth's surface, which are connected to pipes, or pathways underground, and a big crater that holds all the magma, like a lake. Underground, magma isn't free ...

"As lava lake surfaces and sizes are really changeable ... images in the archive of the long-running American Landsat Earth-observation programme. This could fill data gaps in the record.

On Earth, granite is the result of the cooling of molten lava from a volcano ... mountains—part of the Cascade volcanoes—at Scott Lake, ... [+] Oregon. The granite clump was found using ...

In the image, taken on July 5 and released on Wednesday, you can see the shapes of lava flows and lava lakes as bright red ... of light that are not unique to Earth. Jupiter has the brightest ...