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 ...

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 ...

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this ...

Follow-up work, the planetary scientist added, could explore integrating the modelling of a convecting Venusian crust with observations of volcanic ... solid nitrogen ice. "Pluto is probably ...

Last year, a probe it had dispatched in 2006 virtually re-discovered Pluto as a first act on the ... that somehow elements were trapped in ice that was pulled into the planet as it formed ...

This icy plain, composed primarily of nitrogen and methane ice, captures the imagination, reflecting both Pluto’s quirks and the affection ... as on Earth, but by volcanic eruptions on its moon Io.

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger volcanic activity, creating a cycle that speeds up ice loss and sea-level rise. Scientists studying Earth ...

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