The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Under the bombardment of sunlight, methane ice transforms to reactive gaseous particles that eventually fuse into larger ...

Molten lava would wash over the land and the seas ... The ordinary 'stuff' that we see around us - the atoms and molecules of water, carbon, iron, oxygen and the rest that make up our bodies ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

Palmieri observed the line of helium in his researches on the lava of Vesuvius ... an adequate counterpoise to the velocity of their molecules, and they escape from the atmosphere of the earth ...

I have been so busy with our 50th annual Science Fair preparations and visiting all of the young scientists in the classroom lately that I ALMOST forgot about the upcoming “holiday” this week! In case ...

For example, increasing the heat for a rocky exoplanet can easily turn it into a lava world. Since planets form out of the ... The origins of Earth’s volatile elements as complex organic molecules ...

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island sprang to life yet again this week with a Tuesday morning eruption that shot lava more than 300 feet in the air. The latest incident started at about ...

Kilauea volcano began shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii.Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off for nearly two ...

The picturesque Eldhraun Lava Field in Iceland is home to one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions and biggest lava flow in the world. From the U.S. to India, the destruction affected ...

Kilauea volcano began erupting and shooting lava into the air once again Tuesday on the Big Island of Hawaii. The latest release of molten rock began 10:16 a.m. with lava flowing on to the floor ...