When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

Some 66 million years ago, the world was dominated by dinosaurs, and then suddenly, it wasn't. The scientific consensus is that a catastrophic asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous era when it wiped ...

Everybody remembers the good ol’ soda volcanoes from school. The ones that used a mixture of vinegar, dish soap, and baking soda to make “eruptions” that were sure to garner A+ grades. But there’s a ...

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Tidal heating is the major source of heat in the outer Solar System. Because of its strong tidal interaction with Jupiter and the other Galilean Satellites, Io is incredibly volcanically active. We ...