YAMANAKAKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--Solidified lava from eruptions of Mount Fuji in the distant past offers frightening clues of what awaits if the sacred mountain blows its top again. Researchers ...

Researchers found young ridges on the moon’s far side, proving it is still geologically active. The ridges formed in last 200 million years.

Scientists have studied the moon's surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history ...

Expansive lava flows in the Sáttítla Highlands was captured by satellites ahead of the recent designation of the area as a national monument.

The moon is still shrinking and stretching, scientists claim, after discovering a series of ridges on the lunar surface that ...

Lava is the word for magma when it erupts onto the Earth's surface. Geologists also use the term to describe the solidified deposits of lava flows and fragments hurled into the air by explosive ...

The team used advanced mapping and modelling techniques to find 266 previously unknown small ridges on the moon’s far side.

Despite their name, the lunar seas are plains of solidified lava which appear dark on the Moon’s disc. Many lunar seas are large enough to spot with just your eyes, so see how many you can ...

they include both moving lava and the resulting solidified deposits of black rock. Lava flows come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Nyiragongo is considered one of the most dangerous ...

The enormous 3,600ft-tall volcano - named the Axial Seamount - sits around 5,000ft below the surface of the Pacific Ocean and looks set to erupt before the end of 2025, according to US-based scientist ...