Black Soil is known as Regur soil. It is a highly fertile, clayey type soil which is primarily found in the Deccan Trap region of India and renowned for its moisture-retention capacity and its ...

Hidden in the Pacific, two very different volcanoes are forcing scientists to rethink what counts as “biggest.” Tamu Massif, ...

Mumbai is a city that is always changing, with tall buildings and a fast pace. It's easy to forget that it also has a history ...

We are fortunate to have an amazingly diverse collection of rocks waiting to be recognized and appreciated. Each beach rock tells a rich story—from its initial formation, often deep within the Earth, ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a gigantic empty lava tunnel beneath Venus, revealing a hidden volcanic world on ...

Volcanic activity is not unique to Earth: traces of volcanic activity, such as lava tubes, have been found on Mars and the moon. Now, the University of Trento has demonstrated the existence of an ...

Researchers had only hypothesized the existence of underground lava tubes on Venus —until now.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A fresh examination of radar data for Venus obtained by NASA's Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s indicates the presence of a large underground cavity ...