Tiny glass beads found on the Moon show it once had volcanoes, scientists say - Volcanic eruptions were happening as recently ...

Scientists know there were active volcanoes on the near side, the part of the moon seen from Earth, dating back to a similar time frame. Previous studies, including data from NASA's Lunar ...

A new study published last week suggests that while dinosaurs were still the apex predator on Earth, there were active volcanoes ... had previously thought volcanic activity ended on the moon ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there ... that volcanism on the near side had occurred as long ago as four billion ...

An international study featuring scientists from Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Space Science ...

Yet until now, scientists have had little idea of Io’s history ... better understand location and variations in the active volcanoes on the moon's surface. Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

It is how Jupiter currently heats up its moon Io, the most volcanically active spot in the solar ... "There would have been volcanoes jetting off all over the place," he says.

While our moon is relatively calm, Io is considered to be the most volcanically active world in our solar system. And while Earth, of course, has plenty of active volcanoes of its own, eruptions on ...

creating frictional heat deep inside the moon. This makes it extremely volcanically active — there are hundreds of volcanoes and extensive networks of lava flows marking Io’s surface.