The Columbia Basin has been shaped by forces of unimaginable power. Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape. The field evidence of these cataclysms ...
The pumice plain between Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake seethes with steam and superheated gases on May 19, 1980. LONGVIEW — New research on the cataclysmic 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption describes ...
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been repeatedly disgorging lava at its summit crater about once a week since late last year. The firehose of molten rock delights residents, visitors and online ...
Of the over 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, one of the most dramatic is 55 Cancri e. Affectionately known as the “hell planet,” it orbits so close to its star that it reaches ...
Jupiter's super-volcanic moon boasts grand, meandering dunes created not by wind but by lava flows beneath the moon's surface, a new study shows. Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon and the innermost ...