“This distinction sets up a great natural experiment for us to see if the shape, or size, of bends in rivers is distinct from those in volcanic or ice channels,” said Tim Goudge, a co-author on the ...

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms. Global warming could awaken dormant volcanoes, triggering a chain reaction with unpredictable consequences. This recent discovery sheds light ...

and volcanoes. The ice mountains are 11,000 feet high, and the planet's surface does not have a single impact crater, indicating that it is very young. It will take 16 months for all of the data ...

However, the presence of rootless cones suggests a very different past ... both the history of water and ice, and some of the youngest volcanic activity on the planet," concluded Dundas.

When the probe flew over today's dwarf planet in 2015 it took never-before ... that researchers believe formed from the eruption of ice volcanoes is unique in that cold distant world.