A source of fascination for scientists are the volcanoes on distant icy moons, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. These moons have liquid water underground that erupts to the ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission just cracked a big moon mystery: why the far side has barely any volcanoes. By studying rocks from the South Pole-Aitken Basin, scientists found evidence that a massive ...

Scientists said Tuesday they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn’s giant moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a volcano on Titan may spew ice and hydrocarbons instead of ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, is exhibiting geothermal activity far beyond what scientists had anticipated, with heat levels that defy previous models. This extreme thermal activity is driven by the ...

Researchers say that astronauts visiting the moon could drink water thanks to an unlikely source: Ancient volcanoes. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

BEIJING: For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the two sides of the moon look so different. The "near side", which ...