NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon’s Lava Lakes
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Andrea Luck (CC BY) It’s not a big moon relative to some of its neighbors, but Jupiter’s Io is exceedingly active, with volcanoes by the…
Fresh Lava Flows on Venus Hint at Active Volcanoes
The surface of Venus is littered with thousands of volcanoes, some of which may still be active until today. A fresh look at 30-year-old radar images captured by the Magellan…
Dramatic Iceland Eruption Photos Show Lava Spreading Across Pristine Snow
Lava flows across snow-covered ground in southwestern Iceland.Photo: Marco Di Marco (AP) Southwestern Iceland has been a world transformed over the last few months, as initial tremors gave way to…
X-Ray Analysis of Pompeii Victims’ Bones Suggest They Suffocated to Death
Researchers studying the remains of six individuals from Pompeii concluded they asphyxiated during the volcanic eruption that doomed the town nearly 2,000 years ago. Even Twitter Can’t Kill Twitter |…