How was Mercury’s wrinkly surface formed? Mercury’s ancient volcanoes – which might still be slightly active today – can be seen. The wrinkly surface of the plains, called Borealis Plantia ...

Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury’s surface is cratered and barren, lacking any atmosphere but possessing a huge metal core. MESSENGER revealed dormant volcanoes, water ice hiding in shadowed ...

Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the spacecraft's monitoring camera 1 (M-CAM 1) a unique opportunity to peer down into the shadowy polar craters. M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of ...

A volcano in Southern Italy has burned red as lava spewed from one of its craters. The snowy surroundings of Sicily’s Mount Etna were lit up as the volcano emitted lava around 3,000 metres above sea ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Earthquake experts say the more than 200 tremors that have hit the area are not related to the volcano in Santorini, which ...