A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

The Moon’s surface is harsh and unforgiving, but beneath it lies a network of massive lava tubes that could serve as natural shelters for future lunar colonies.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

AtIndonesia’s Kawah Ijen volcano, a breathtaking blue glow emerges at night, setting it apart from most volcanoes where lava ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea—one of Earth’s most active volcanoes—is bringing the drama. On December 6 lava fountains in the Halema‘uma‘u crater at the shield volcano’s summit spewed more than 1,000 feet into the ...

The current series of eruptions has featured lava fountains up to 1,500 feet. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is once again shooting lava more than 1,000 feet into the air. Episode 36 of the current series ...

The takeaway: Little is understood about the geology of Venus, and recent findings suggest that the planet's subsurface processes may not follow the same patterns observed elsewhere. Future missions ...

We now know for sure that massive underground tunnels, carved by lava, exist on Venus – and they are surprisingly wide and different from those on any other planet. It is uncontroversial that lava ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum canceled the large Lava Ridge wind project in south-central Idaho. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in a Dec. 5 record of decision approved a scaled-down version ...