In the search for potentially life-supporting exoplanets, liquid water is the key indicator. Life on Earth requires liquid water, and scientists strongly believe the same is true elsewhere. But from a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park. A new study suggests that future eruptions ...

As tourists stroll between Yellowstone’s 300 active geysers, taking selfies in front of thousands of bubbling, boiling mud pots and hissing steam vents, they are treading on one of the planet’s ...

Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers finds a new study, overturning classic ideas about volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes are not fed by molten magma formed in large chambers ...

When red-hot magma spews from a volcano, it is clearly flowing like a liquid. But before erupting, that same magma may have spent hundreds of thousands of years in a chunky state resembling cold ...

CHICAGO — An entire ocean of liquid magma, or maybe a hot heart of solid metal, may lurk in Io’s underworld. The surface of Jupiter’s innermost moon is covered in scorching lava lakes and gored by ...

New research has pinpointed where theYellowstone supervolcano will likely erupt. It won't blow today, but future eruptions will likely center on the northeastern side of the national park, the new ...