Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...
Olympus Mons, a shield volcano on Mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system, measuring approximately 370 miles in diameter and 26 kilometers in height. The formation of Olympus Mons and three ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100 ...
The Solar System has 8 planets, and each one is different. Earth has 5 oceans, thick air, forests, rivers, and more than 1.5 ...
Lava flows erupt from the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on March 25, 1984. (USGS photo) The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory raised the alert on the world’s largest active volcano this week, ...
A team of geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history with its source deep beneath the Pacific ...