The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Rootless cones are small volcanic landforms ranging from several to several hundred meters in diameter, formed by continuous ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few areas ...

Using syrup and baking soda, research has demonstrated the formation mechanism of rootless cones, small volcanic landforms commonly found on Earth and Mars. The study clarified, through an ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

Images of Mars taken from orbit show thousands of mounds in a region sculpted by water billions of years ago. A robotic mission may investigate the area one day.

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

"Rootless cones form when lava flows over wet or icy ground, causing it to boil and explode," said Dundas. "The region around ...

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

The new work suggests that the edge of the dichotomy was eroded back by hundreds of kilometers during the time when an ocean ...

The Martian hemispheric dichotomy stands as one of the most striking geological features in the Solar System. It divides the ...

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain reaction with unpredictable consequences. This recent discovery sheds light on ...