Capable of both destruction and creation, space volcanoes are common on planets and moons throughout the solar system and beyond.

They estimated that about 41% of the water from volcanoes may have condensed on the moon as ice. Wilcoski said: ‘The atmospheres escaped over about 1,000 years, so there was plenty of time for ...

Silicic volcanoes on Earth require two main ingredients to form: Plate tectonics and water. The Moon has neither of them. This means that, based on our current understanding of how volcanoes work ...

Robots will venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to find ancient water ice, while studies find hints about how ...

the dark regions that cover the moon's lowlands. But those volcanoes also belched out water vapor. As it touched the frigid moon, the water vapor would have frozen solid, forming a layer of ice a ...

Hayne is a coauthor on a new study published this month in The Planetary Science Journal about potential sources of water on the moon. When these lunar volcanoes erupted, it’s also likely they ...

It’s been visited multiple times—in fact there’s a rover on it right now—but it’s bound to get a whole lot more interesting ...

Any water present would only exist as water vapor in the ... The youngest mare are thought to be only 1.1 billion years old, which means volcanoes were still erupting on the moon two billion years ...

In spite of being posted on VC, the word ‘volcano’ does not appear in this post. Or at least, it wouldn’t have had I not ...

A tsunami in Indonesia after the eruption of the Anak Krakatau Volcano killed at keast 222 people ... high tide because of the current full moon. But he said there were no “significant ...

Best known for its beautiful sunsets, this national park in Maui also has hiking trails and scenic overlooks. More things to ...

Water hidden on the moon for eons could be utilised as a resource for a future moon base (Credits: Getty) The moon could hold enough water under its surface to meet the needs of a moonbase and to ...