A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

Volcanoes have stirred human awe for thousands of years, with their bursts of fire and rivers of molten rock. Yet, beyond the ...

Catch the final runs of the season! Ski Northstar, Heavenly, and Kirkwood with stunning Tahoe scenery before all three Epic ...

but suffered the shock of falling behind after just 28 seconds in the first leg at Planet Ice on Saturday. But Phantoms didn’t concede again in over 119 minutes of action as they bounced back to ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with convection, a process that helps move heat and may explain the planet’s tens ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes ... causing ice sheets to melt faster. This exposes darker surfaces beneath ice, which absorb more sunlight, warming the planet further.

Pluto was once called the ninth planet, but in 2006, scientists changed its status to a dwarf planet. A planet must clear its orbit of other objects, but Pluto shares its space with many small icy ...

Use a map-based interface to spatially compare sea ice extent for any two days or months between 1979 and present. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet, and as a result, sea ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has delivered jaw-dropping video of Pluto's moon Nix, showcasing something no one expected towering ice mountains, some as high as 11,000 feet. These magnificent ice ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could be used to test the researchers' hypothesis. If crustal convection is ...