Rivers

Scientists discover Antarctica’s lost river 34 million years later

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Scientists have discovered that a river comparable in size to the Rio Grande once dominated West Antarctica, offering a rare glimpse of the continent’s land covered in ice today. It is believed that the 900-mile-long waterway flowed about 44 to 34 million years ago, shortly before the continent’s immensely thick ice sheets began to build … Read more

Rivers of lava on Venus reveal a more volcanically active planet

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Witnessing the blood-red fires of a volcanic eruption on Earth is memorable. But it would be extraordinary to see molten rock bleeding from a volcano on another planet. That’s close to what scientists have noticed on Venus: two huge, serpentine lava flows oozing from two different corners of Earth’s neighboring planet. “When you see something … Read more