The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

These vast, linked lava plains are now thought to be compositionally and structurally anomalous with respect to the rest of the Moon. From this separate vantage point, LMS may provide the first ...

Mercury’s wrinkle-like features across the left half of the image likely formed after those lava plains solidified and the planet’s interior cooled and contracted, according to an ESA statement.

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

This lava blankets the valley floor, walls, and much of the surrounding plains, obscuring older geological features and complicating efforts to date and understand the processes that shaped this ...

Virunga is a World Heritage Site and boasts Africa’s most diverse array of landscapes: savannahs, lava plains, swamps, lowland forests, active volcanoes and snow-capped mountains. It is also home to ...